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"Temadorpies" high fashion and numerous shopping centers and (Monte) casinos are accordingly interpreted. The true Jacob as Pilgrim, Gold Reef City and Matjiesfontein, however areca nut peeling machine rare. The latter Jens Friis's heart has been stolen as a child, and he continues to like in Matjiesfontein to when he took the way to the Cape. So Matjiesfontein EXPANDED TO WHAT IT IS TODAY's to James Douglas Logan who Matjiesfontein largely owes his existence has. Before his arrival in 1884, it was for six years already merely a stop for steam trains to take in water. After the Australian ship that Logan was almost sank off Cape Point, areca nut peeling machine he alighted at Simonstown, station master of the pasvoltooide become Cape Town station and was later promoted to district superintendent of the railways between the Hex River and Prince Albert Road. Because Matjiesfontein central location for his work, the dry Karoo air was good for his weak chest, and he has received the exclusive right to sell refreshments at Matjiesfontein, the Logans their there. It is said Logan, a smart businessman, made a fortune by selling piping hot soup. Before it was drinkable, the train departed, areca nut peeling machine the soup is thrown back into the pot and it was ready for the next travelers. In time, a village grew around Logan's areca nut peeling machine Hotel Lord Milner - named after the Cape Governor. Logan was Cape parliament and such persons as the Sultan of Zanzibar and Sir Randolph Churchill, father of Winston, called at the landlord who owns 100 000 hectares around Matjiesfontein. With Logan's death in 1920 was the Karoo air-fashion thing of the past. On top of that divert the main road. The Matjiesfonteindroom has languished until the businessman David Rawdon all the settlement in 1968 of Logan's grandson bought and the Lord Milner Hotel has reopened. Transnet, a few years ago renovated the beautiful station building and a conference center equipped. The Marie Rawdon Museum, which is also housed here, the most Anglo-Boer War memorabilia in the country. A British camp with about 20,000 horses and 10,000 soldiers were then in this field. The letters `` VR '' still refers to the reign of Queen Victoria to have a letter next to the post office. Next to the cottage areca nut peeling machine which Olive Schreiner hired and in which his long conversations had with Cecil Rhodes. These days it is a guesthouse, like most houses in the town. The Coffee House, formerly the general store, sells old-fashioned sweets and other snacks. For the shop is still two red-and-yellow Shell petrol pumps - a reference to the national road that once ran through here. First and only ones Matjiesfontein boasts many first and only ones: * The first international cricket match between South Africa and England were in the middle of nowhere games. The then master of Matjiesfontein, Jimmy Logan, the two tours of Lord Hawke's teams organized to South Africa. Later, Logan pay for the entire South African team's tour of England. The Laird's Arms, where the thirst is, is full of snapshots of the krieketmal Logan, while the furniture in it from the Marleybone Cricket Club at Lords come. * Tweedside Lodge, a Victorian house with 25 rooms, was the first in South Africa with electricity. * It is claimed that the longest private telephone line in the Colony had linked with Tweedside Farm, 20 km south along the N1. The phone is now on display in the museum library the street. areca nut peeling machine * The town was also another advance by both electricity supply and to have a sewer system areca nut peeling machine with water. WOULD YOU GO * Matjiesfontein is a few minutes drive from Laingsburg areca nut peeling machine along the N1 to Cape Town. It's not a halfway house to Cape Town for Image-readers. But it's a nice stopover if you want to drive far to the first day and then stay over for the morning to come early to the sea. * Bring plenty of warm clothing areca nut peeling machine in winter and summers necessary areca nut peeling machine sunscreen and sunglasses, for Matjiesfontein in the Karoo. It's typical areca nut peeling machine desert weather. * Would you Matjiesfontein as a base for a few days to use are highlights in this world and Sutherland Seweweekspoort. * And if you like Sonja Heroldt want to take the train to Matjiesfontein, pour a view to http://www.spoornet.co.za/ areca nut peeling machine or call 086 000 8888.
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