S1 - Ep 475 - Tweeling, Free State!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2024
- We are always happy when we can find a gravel road to travel on and this time was no different. We always get to see beautiful things on these roads like the stunning blesbok, sheep and cattle, not to mention the Liebenbergsvlei River with its rapids on both sides of the road. Tweeling was another interesting town in the Free State. The town does look as if it needs help. We did come across the well-maintained church and the amazing Skipskop Pub and Grill with its manicured gardens and unique décor. It was good to meet local folks who see a future for their town and are willing to invest time and money to see their dreams come to fruition. We were very happy to have seen this little town. #DustBugs #dustbugstravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #tweeling #freestate #skipskop
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SONJA MY DEAR WOMAN, YOU HAVE NO REASON AT ALL TO BE CAMERA SHY, YOU ARE LOVELY WITH A BEAUTIFUL FACE, TRULY I MEAN IT. GO ON YOUR JOURNEY WITH YOUR MAN, TOO SOON OLD AGE GRABS YOU BY THE HEELS. THE TWO OF YOU ARE BLESSED TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER AND BRING US LOTS OF JOY. GOD BLESS. FROM BREDASDORP
Attended Tweeling Hoërskool from 1993 till 2001. The school was one of the best in the region. The best time of my life!!! Was there earlier last year, and the town has significantly grown bigger. Loved that place.
Hi you two travelers, I enjoyed seeing the place where we spent many a holiday at my grandmother's place. It was very small then but not as neglected as it is now. My father was the building foreman who build the church in Tweeling. There he met my mom and they got married on December 13, 1952. So sad to see downfall of a once busy farming town. Thanks so much for the video. 🤗
Love traveling around SA with Dustbugs! I’m an ex SAfrican living in USA but my heart will always be in SA ❤
I always thought Tweeling was just a railway siding. Love the blesbok with the sheep. It does look like that line is still running. That lone rail coach....its all very peaceful now..... but come midnight and its another story. It goes like mad to and fro! But not every night. Only when the moon is full.....
I think the goal is to work remotely full time and move out of the big cities drone to a small town with cheaper homes, open spaces and peacefulness. It's a lovely little place, just needs new people ❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
Always enjoy my backseat drives with dusty
Hi you two! Gravel roads, blue skies,, blesbokke and brahmane so good to see before reaching the poor "was" and "has been" town. The place deserves to be repaired and I hope the locals will receive help and money to do it. Until next time, keep safe!
Those cattle look like the closest thing to an Eland. When I was growing up in Rhodesia there was a conservation camp (Mushandike near Fort Victoria) that all the seniors in the junior schools attended for a week. During this time we learnt how to shoot, (Those that never knew) soil erosion animals and their habits, netting fish camping etc. during this time we visited an experimental Eland farm where they had been domesticated and were being harvested for food. We could literally approach these beautiful animals up close to within 8 feet. So those cattle reminded me of this.
I enjoy this kin of videos
Liebenbergsvlei river starts at Bethlehem (town) dam and carries water to the Vaaldam inlet just outside Frankfort. There is a river coming from Clarens direction towards Bethlehem area, the Ash river, which feeds into the Bethlehem dam. The Ash river is nowadays mostly fed from the tunnel system, just outside Clarens, that brings water from the Katse dam in Lesotho to the Vaaldam system.
Dis een van daardie dorpe wat vir jou sê" Eendag, lank gelede ......."
Was nog nooit hier nie. Dit was seker n lekker plek om in te gebly het lank gelede.
Hello Julle twee, heartsore for that little town. It needs lots of help! But it's very peaceful which is a blessing 🙌 Keep safe and God bless you for sharing your videos with us all ❤
Hi guys loved the drive in blesbok cattle blesbok sheep I'd say Tweeling has seen better days but I'd say back in the day it was thriving. Great to get name boards at station the train carriage could be repurposed. 139 miles to joberg surprise so near .cattle walking over the tracks. Loved the stone tannery with the wagon wheel .sad they have to fence the church grounds but if it preserves it all well and good. The old mill was so interesting and the machinery built in Rochdale!!!, positive they have a clinic and schools. Skipskop and grill was like a step back in time I could definitely have a few beers there love the carragated wall quirky let's hope the town can prosper in the future. Great video thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
All I feel is.. Sadness...
We were there last Monday, found some gravel roads from Clarens to Kestel to Tweeling into Frankfort, some on farm roads but the farmers were very friendly and allowed us to travel thru the farms
The first to go seems to be the swimming pools that could be an attraction and bring in the money for the upkeep, but then the paving that cannot be stolen is thrown into the pool. I donot understand that mentality.
The trip and vegetation up to Tweeriviere as well as the Blesbokke and Brahmaan is absolutely st 33:30 unning. Also a declining town - so sad. But that is life hey. Sad to see the swimming pool and shops out of action. A very nice trip. Thank you well done. Cant wait for the next one!
It was clear that Tweeling is a struggling little place. It was quite sad to see. 🚙😢
It's so nice to watch your videos, never been to Tweeling.
You'd be surprised about that particular fuel pump. We have one with sasol still printed on it from 19-voetsek. All manual old school digits. Been driven over, the nozzle broken ... all repaired. Still works 🤣💯 eish tweeling.... with proper management, it will flourish.
Maybe start with the rubbish outside.... education is key.
Amazing that the Liebenberg Family name is prevalent in different parts of our Beautiful countries, Half my Family was murdered Many Moons ago during the TREK
This town has gotten the heck out of skipskop‼️
Please travel to Harrismith in the next video please 😊
Baie dankie vriende.
Yip know it well
It's very sad to see this little place going down hill. It doesn't look like it was big to start with. No main steet, and only one church.
Such a sad looking place
Glimmende trainrails… altijd mooi om te zien! De route op weg naar dit dorp toont wederom het prachtige weidse landschap van Zuid-Afrika. De bokkies gemoedelijk om de schapen heen en daarna de diverse gekleurde runderen vormen een lieflijk geheel. Afgezien van het vuilnis langs de weg en meerdere tekenen dat het Tweeling ooit beter voor de wind ging, overheerst het gevoel dat jullie ook benadrukken: zolang er mensen zijn die energie steken in de leefbaarheid van deze plaats, is het de moeite van een bezoek waard! De sfeer oogt gemoedelijk, er zijn nog steeds meerdere supermarkten, zelfs op veel gedeeltes langs de weg een roze fietspad, meerdere oude woonhuizen en die geweldige pub 🍻. De kerk beheerders zullen hun redenen hebben voor de aanleg van het hoge hek rondom … mogelijk ziet het gebouw er daarom van buitenaf nog goed uit. Aandoenlijk dat de eerste ‘moeder’ met een sokkel wordt geëerd en elders in Tweeling een andere struise dame uit recentere geschiedenis onlangs een eigen standbeeld kreeg. Die enorme silo’s en daarbij het moderne tankstation met schaduw overkapping duidt op zakelijke activiteiten. Het allermooiste zou zijn als juist tijdens jullie bezoek er een trein door het dorp was gereden 🚂 maar ja, een mens kan niet alles hebben 😊
What a tragedy of a little town. So, so sad.
I suppose with these little towns that haven't survived the changes of the last few decades well, part of it is just down to something like whatever is killing off little Texas towns far away. (City lights calling in the moths, for instance.)
And then it's a failure to appreciate the best of what the town has to offer. An understandable failure. We always have to do some accounting for the sins of the past, even if there are manipulators out there who use this line of thought to rationalize destructive behaviours/ policies today. If you can't swim, you don't care for the town pool. If, while it still lives, when you go there, there's tension in the air, you don't give it a second chance. And they're expensive to keep running.
You might even find there's a global reduction in public pool use, where there's not too much frost and ice and miserable weather for such things to be able to exist? Kids today live inside their phones, unless they're being well rewarded for performing athletic feats. (The usual "rewards in kind", I mean.) Things like organized swimming might have less support than once was the case. Chugging lengths in a state of slight Oxygen starvation is only intrinsically appealing to a small proportion of people. Anyway that's just detail and speculation. All I'm saying is that popular culture might've changed. Maybe to the youth of today, the idea of spending some hours around a pool seems a waste of time, and there aren't enough athletes around to make up for other potential uses of a pool. (It seems like it's always the pool that goes, hence this emphasis on that facility.)
You'd think it would make more sense to take over something like that old mill, and take advantage of all the character and interesting history it has, but for someone who simply doesn't know how to see that, it might just look like "old junk".
Oh well, it's nice to see that there are also little towns where the things that make them a little bit less ugly are managing to survive. Just to put it harshly for some reason. We definitely have some really ugly towns (just like America has - possibly in imitation). If you look the right way, you can see some beauty there (and you guys are fantastic at this, so thanks for that), but if you look in a different idea, the stop in the dorpie can be the depressing part of a road trip. I think maybe we beat America when it comes to this, so there's a thing. The videos I've seen of those Texas towns have never left me wondering why everyone left, but in our little dorpies there's always something charming, even if it's sometimes extremely well hidden, or in the process of being demolished to make way for something so utilitarian it kills you a bit inside, straight through the eyes.
It's as well to remember that this destruction of the "old junk" for more "up to date" things goes back to long, long, long ago. Since way back, I can remember buildings that looked like there was some life associated with them being replaced with things that looked like crematorium fronts or warehouses from many years ago. It all starts with "brutalism", not with what set in motion this new wave of rural decay (where there's decay). A lot of the stations you visit are the 1970's station, built as ugly as possible, while the old Victorian station got demolished, for instance. You're seeing "the second ruin", not the first. You're seeing the ruin that was build upon the destruction of an old station that might've been worth a visit, a very long time ago.
Oh well, at least there will be nothing to mourn the loss of when the current set of buildings gets flattened one day. It'll be good riddance most of the time.
Hmmm ... I seem to have started to ramble on a bit, haven't I?
Eyish! Poor Tweeling! It should've had a better future than it managed to have. But I suppose there will be some people who disagree, and wonder how others can't see how lovely their town has become?
As positive as we've always been on our travels, and always will be, even we couldn't call Tweeling a thriving or pretty place and we made that very clear in our video. 🚙😥 It still deserves the good future you talk about though.
@@DustBugsTravel And you did point out that there are people making a go of it there, which is double-positive in many ways. They might just succeed. If they do, that might be just enough. I suppose one thing we don't see in any town of sufficient age is how it was during its earlier dark days? During the Great Depression, for instance, during the 10 year drought so many people went through. I suppose it's just in the nature of things that places have their ups and downs. Go to some marked villages in England, and all you'll see are fields. Cottages got demolished so there's a better "view" from the Big House. That kind of thing.
But the churches keep going. In one of the towns ancestors of mine came from, all that's left standing is the church. It's no longer in use, but it's intact, and it's been there since before 1500. There are places still with houses where the church has been there in some form from as early as 1100 (almost a thousand years ago - who can imagine so many years?). It's not the same building, but every time its crumbled someone has cared enough to put it back up and renovate it again.
I think in some of the places you've visited one day all that will remain is a church and some uneven patches in the ground. And that's kind of how things go. None of us last forever, and not even what we set down in stone is eternal.
If we feel this strongly about buildings, structures and towns that are 'only' up to 100 or 200 years old, I can only imagine how we'll freak out when we visit even older places. 🚙🤩 We've done in the past, but that was before we had this deep appreciation of the stories told by those places.
I used to live in tweeling till 12 years ago ,it was a neat decent town ,lools like they destroyed everything !like they gonna destroy every town in SA !take me back 1980's
No excuses for ANC mismanagement, but I have seen worse American towns. I always wonder why given their strong financial resources compared to South Africa, where majority of people rely on grants, but still expect services.
Destroyed Beyond Repair.😢
@@ronaldabuezubane7397Its understandable for people to have nostalgia for "the good old days" but its unrealistic to expect every town to be thriving. South Africa is not some island that is not affected by events that are happening all over the world, as weather patterns change people who used to rely on agriculture for their sustenance are moving from these small places to the cities in search of a better life. Like you said this is not unique to SA, even the biggest economy in the world is grappling with the same issue.
@bertusclaassens7232 Where's Mevrou Claassens?🥺