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Dear visitor,

Welcome to my website. I hope you are finding it interesting and helpful as a source of information about our lovely country South Africa. My name is Henk and I am an age 60+ senior citizen.

I was born in Holland. After finishing High school I had some difficulty to decide what I wanted to do with my future. So when relatives in South Africa offered me the opportunity to stay with them for a year on a working holiday, I grabbed it with both hands. It would give me time to think and decide.

In October 1964 I put my feet on South African soil for the first time and it did not take long for me to absolutely fall in love with this fantastic country. It wasn't long before I fell in love again, this time with a lovely girl called Adri, who has been my wife for the last 38 years. By the way, she is the "Us" in "About Us".

And so the one year working holiday became a permanent residence of almost 40 years, whereas my wife has lived in South Africa since the age of 6, which makes it a total of 50 years for her. We both have permanent resident status in South Africa.

We have four children and thirteen grand children, all of them living in South Africa. My wife and I had to move to the Netherlands in 2001 for employment related reasons, much against our wishes. We hope to return to South Africa in due course. In the meantime we visit South Africa as often as we can, which is at least once and often twice a year.

"Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh," the saying goes and indeed we found ourselves talking about our beloved South Africa and our experiences as South Africans at every opportunity. We sincerely believe that visiting our extraordinary beautiful country will be the experience of a lifetime not to be missed by you.

Living in the Netherlands, a long distance away from South Africa, was quite sobering and the passion and love for our "rainbow" country became very clear to us. More and more we felt the urge to share this love and passion with you, with others, with the rest of the world. To share the beauty and the uniqueness of our country, even the country itself if you like.

So this is what our website is about:

• To provide you with a variety of information that will help you make your South Africa experience an exciting and enjoyable one, whether you want to visit our country, or just learn about it. That includes sharing with you our personal experiences as South Africans.
  
  
• To support our country by promoting tourism. Tourism is one of the pillar stones in South Africa's economy, especially as far as job creation is concerned. Creating jobs is an absolute necessity to combat the high unemployment and poverty in our country. We hope to make some contribution with this website.
  
  
• And last but not least to overcome our homesickness by keeping close contact with our beloved country and family and also to keep alive our dreams of returning there one day.

Well, dear visitor, that's our story. Thanks for visiting, we hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments about our beautiful South Africa.

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