\u2019n 27-jarige toeris van Belgi\u00eb wat onlangs \u2019n maand lank in Worcester gewoon het, vertel aan Standard <\/i>dit was vir hom \u2019n lewensverrykende ondervinding. <\/p>\n
Lodewijk Vereecke, \u2019n logistieke spesialis by die Volvo-groep in Evergem, Belgi\u00eb, het besluit hy gaan \u2019n jare lange droom verwesenlik en het in April vanjaar impulsief \u2019n vliegkaartjie na Suid-Afrika gekoop.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het in 2020 by \u2019n groep aangesluit wat beleggingsopsies bespreek en het toe \u2019n Suid-Afrikaner daarop ontmoet. Ons het sedertdien gesels en net gekliek. Ek het soveel gehoor oor Suid-Afrika en wou dit baie graag besoek. In Maart vanjaar was ek baie impulsief en het op die ingewing van die oomblik \u2019n kaartjie gekoop en \u2019n paar dae later, op 4 April, is ek toe op die vliegtuig,\u201d vertel Lodewijk aan Standard<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sy Suid-Afrikaanse penmaat was ook per toeval \u2019n Worcesteriet genaamd Curtley Baird.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuid-Afrika was onmiddellik vir my \u2019n anderste ervaring. Ek moes gewoond raak om aan die teenoorgestelde kant van die pad te ry en moes die pad van Kaapstad na Worcester aandurf.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is afgetrek omdat ek per ongeluk die motor se ligte afgesit het, maar die beamptes was baie vriendelik.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk moes in die donkerte die huis opspoor en alhoewel dit aanvanklik onveilig gevoel het, het dit baie vinnig soos \u2019n tweede huis vir my geword,\u201d vertel hy verder.<\/p>\n
Lodewijk, wat vreeslik avontuurlustig is en graag adrenalien najaag, verduidelik dat Suid-Afrika veral vir hom baie gebied het om te doen. <\/p>\n
\u201cOns weer in Europa is meestal koud en ek is lief vir somer. Aprilmaand was veral \u2019n lekker tyd in Suid-Afrika \u2013 ek kon soveel doen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hy en Curtley het graag allerhande avonture gaan aanpak. Van staproetes, tot valskermspring en selfs haaihokduik gedoen.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk was aanvanklik skrikkerig, want \u2019n mens hoor negatiewe goed oor die land. Worcester herinner my geweldig aan die dorp waar ek vandaan kom en het \u2019n rustige atmosfeer met baie vriendelike mense. Die mense daar het baie vinnig soos familie vir my geword.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk, wat nie baie oor geloof weet nie, het aanklank gevind by die Baird-familie se manier van dankie s\u00ea. Hierdie dankbaarheid wat in geloof gevind kan word, is vir my baie mooi,\u201d voeg Lodewijk by.<\/p>\n
Hy is op 20 April terug Belgi\u00eb toe.<\/p>\n
Curtley se pa, Xenny, vertel aan Standard <\/i>dat dit vir hom en sy hele gesin \u2019n wonderlike ervaring was om meer te leer oor iemand anders se kultuur.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n voorreg en baie lekker. Hy het sulke goeie maniere en ons kon vir hom soveel wys.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lodewijk vertel dat hy reeds na Suid-Afrika en veral Worcester verlang.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk wil binnekort teruggaan. Ek sal maklik daar kan gaan bly. Die weer is vir my en die mense is baie vriendelik. Dalk maak ek eendag my eie onderneming daar oop en verhuis sommer.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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