{"id":19211,"date":"2024-10-17T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aleta.life\/?p=19211"},"modified":"2024-10-17T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:29:29","slug":"hoedspruit-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleta.life\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/hoedspruit-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoedspruit and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hoedspruit is not pronounced \u201choed\u2019 sprout\u201d as you might imagine. Rather it is \u201cwho\u2019d\u2019 sprit\u201d. Such are the variances between modern Dutch and Afrikaans (broadly based on 400-year-old Dutch). Twenty years ago, Indians in India were still speaking a form of Victorian English that had departed the UK in the 1960s. The quaint riches of the older dialect had given way to modern expediency in its native land. India\u2019s towering bureaucracy had preserved Queen Victoria<\/a>\u2019s imperial tongue as a matter of social standing. I haven\u2019t visited India recently. I\u2019m sure the younger generation speaks some version of international English corrupted by too much YouTube.<\/p>\n

African Flair Lodge<\/h6>\n

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Carol wanted some pampering. It was, after all, her birthday. An administratively important one at that (no more questions! \u2013 ed.)<\/em>. With a bit of digging, she found the African Flair Lodge<\/a> located inside the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate<\/a>, a private, gated community with a bit of wildlife roaming around. The African Flair is a boutique hotel, which, for the price of an average room in New York, bought us the run of the place. Opened a couple of years ago, it is already winning accolades. Consider this review another one (accolade).<\/p>\n

The hotel consists of two buildings. A main entrance with sofas, original artworks, a breakfast room, and wine racks filling the remaining space. Heading out the large swing door towards the courtyard, loungers and chairs surround the pool area. The path leads you back towards the master bedroom in its own building. Inside the king-sized bed is piled high with pillows. The walls are adorned with huge paintings and artefacts fill every available flat surface.<\/p>\n

The bathroom is en-suite \u2013 or rather, in-suite. Two showers, one inside and one outside and a bathtub means no waiting for your ablutions. Like the reception hall, the bedroom\u2019s high roof is thatched and therefore well insulated. Temperatures are controlled by ceiling fans and a split unit air conditioner. A consistent ivory, fawn, brown and black theme ran throughout the d\u00e9cor. It was all pretty damn comfortable.<\/p>\n

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