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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

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