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Letter as published in Country Life<br />
Magazine<br />
I read in one of your back issues that you<br />
are looking for people who live a commuter<br />
life to write in. Well many months<br />
have passed so a bit late!!! Lying in the<br />
sun on our Free State farm reading your<br />
February issue just reminded me.<br />
We live Monday to Thursday in Johannesburg<br />
and are in the thick of things traffic,<br />
school lifts, work, sport, gym and of<br />
course the ever present load shedding.<br />
After 6 years of searching for the perfect<br />
alternative lifestyle we found our piece of<br />
heaven 3 years ago and couldn't be happier.<br />
Every Friday at 2pm the family (2 dogs,<br />
1 cat , 1 bearded dragon , a leopard ghekko,<br />
hamster, 3 kids and 2 adults - and a<br />
convoy of friends) skip town.<br />
We have a 1300 hectare farm just outside<br />
Vrede in the Eastern Free State. We breed<br />
Drakensburger Cattle.<br />
Kersboodskap van Buffalo Valley Farms, tuiste van die Drakensberger.<br />
Ons wil almal bedank wat ons ondersteun het<br />
in hierdie jaar en ons wens een en almal ‘n baie<br />
geseënde Kersfees en ‘n voorspoedige 2009.<br />
Ware vooruitgang is om meer kennis in te win,<br />
meer te wees, en meer te doen (Oscar Wilde).<br />
Mag ons almal geinspereerd wees in 2009!<br />
We found the most beautiful piece of land<br />
filled with rivers, kloofs, cliffs of breading<br />
birds (once featured on 50/50) dispelling<br />
the flat Free State impression! It is only<br />
195 km's from door to door but is worlds<br />
apart!!! I was hoping to find a sandstone<br />
home to renovate but instead got a<br />
"moderne plaas huis" which we have<br />
turned into a fun, albeit quirky, comfy<br />
home. This has given us and our 3 growing<br />
kids so much love, joy, balance and pleasure.<br />
I can't imagine trawling malls and<br />
Johannesburg weekends anymore. We<br />
spend them riding horses and motor<br />
bikes, fishing, walking, picnicking and<br />
working on our animals! The community<br />
around us have taken us under their wings<br />
even though we are naweek boere en<br />
rooinekke!! (En Joode!!!)<br />
Our friends from Johannesburg jostle for<br />
a visit and all 16 beds are more than most<br />
We thank you all for your support during 2008.<br />
May you all have a blessed Christmas and a<br />
very prosperous 2009.<br />
True progress is to know more, be more, and<br />
do more (Oscar Wilde). May we all be inspired<br />
in 2009.<br />
Contact Details:<br />
http://studbook.co.za/breeders/buffalo/valley.html<br />
Tel./ Fax 017 8432904, Fax 086 6947093 Cell. John 082 805 3932, Vic 082 805 3932.<br />
buffalovalley@skyafrica.co.za<br />
13<br />
times full (even had to do check out times<br />
once). People seem to crave the alternative<br />
way of life. I would be happy to share<br />
our trials and tribulations with your readers<br />
in the hope of more people taking this<br />
option to ground their families and lives.<br />
Thank you so much for your outstanding<br />
mag - I drink in every page. And as for<br />
Load shedding our kids are so used to the<br />
farm electricity they go yeah when the<br />
lights go out and aah when they come<br />
back on!!!!!<br />
Love<br />
Sean, Glynda, Jake, Dean and<br />
Loren Kramer