Final 12 months was in fact full of many quiet moments and much more quiet areas. It doesn’t occur fairly often, however every so often I get the chance to go away the ladies behind with Chantelle and enterprise out by myself little photograph walkabout – which is strictly what occurred on one nice Sunday afternoon again in August of final 12 months. So good day to the bare oak timber, basic structure, and the oh so many items of artwork on public show of Stellenbosch and its college campus grounds!
Established alongside the banks of the Eerste River in 1679 by Simon van der Stel, the then Governor of the Cape Colony, the achingly lovely Stellenbosch is acknowledged because the second oldest city in South Africa. Surrounded by mountains, full of historic oak timber, and residential to a lot of South Africa’s historic wine trade, the comparatively rich Stellenbosch is a city effectively value visiting.
Additionally it is value mentioning that though technically Stellenbosch isn’t a college city as such, the fact is that it very a lot is, with the Stellenbosch College campus, school buildings, and pupil residences occupying a lot of the guts of this previous city. What this then interprets to is that when the scholars aren’t on campus then the city turns into a LOT quieter – and since the college is built-in into the city, you’ll be able to casually stroll round these magnificent examples of previous structure everytime you like. In different phrases, there are plenty of fairly buildings ready to be seen!
My informal stroll with digicam cellphone in hand took me previous the grandiose Dutch Reformed (NG Moederkerk) church, the attention catching purple of the Stellenbosch College Museum, via the Jan Marais Sq. (Pink Sq.) and over the underground Stellenbosch College Library, and previous the majestic school buildings and huge residences that so many college students name house in the course of the tutorial 12 months. I walked alongside the surging Eerste River, down the historic Dorp road, and previous so, so many artwork galleries simply filled with the treasure of inventive endeavour. Seventh heaven for somebody like me then!
Though I went to the College of Cape City throughout my years as a college pupil, I spent a lot time on the College of Stellenbosch because of my many buddies who opted to pursue their research there, and so this stroll was very a lot a visit down reminiscence lane – much more so as a result of it felt like I used to be actually the one particular person there!
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