There are around 300 of them in Namibia! [S5 - Eps. 41]
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- In this episode I am making my way from Aus to Luderitz in Namibia. On the way, I am on the look out for the feral Namib horses, that have adapted to live in this inhospitable desert. I also check out the Diaz cross, at the place where Portuguese navigator Bartholomeus Diaz passed on the way to Cape of Good Hope!
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Good day! Norally, my wife found out that I am watching itchy boots. She was very curious about you she insisted that we have to watch the whole series where you started, we spend the whole Saturday and Sunday watching you from s1 ep1 up to the end of your journey to Netherlands. And the most interesting part is she wants to learn how to ride a motorcycle. 😂😊😊😊
From my own experience watching motorbike travels on utube, women on motorbikes are the most interesting, the guys are more into showing how clever they are, but the girls just get on and do it.
This is another great benefit of her work and exploits. She gets more people interested in motorcycling. She's also very conservative in her riding technique, teaching younger riders, Skill over Style wins the day over the long haul.
You won in life good sir
Wow excited couple ❤️
Love from Kohima Nagaland
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Keep Tracking. I started to follow this couple of months ago. Allmost catching her now. 👋🏻🤠
The dude at the gas station is a happy, friendly dude!
It is best to fuel up when the day is done. Less air in the tank to make water.
Yep. Definitely he is. 👍
Lol he's considered quite normal by African standards
The interaction between the gas station attendant showed class👍
Incredible to know that someone stood there 5 centuries ago. Always a great feeling to know such things
I love it when you tell us the history of the areas you visited. My new favorite channel and person to watch. Keep up the great videos and history lessons.
Totally amazing how Noraly could tell the fascinating story of feral Namibian horses you cant even see!
This is the only way I will get see the world. Thank you!
That's sad, I hope you get to travel some day too.
Pretty isolated place☀️☕️
You’re a good person. A little tip always brings smiles. 👍😎
These horses origin from the German armee through WWI. My grandfather was a coachman in Deutsch Südwest, and he ran military coaches, pulled by horses. The Germans didn't have motorized vehicles at these times. During WWII my grandfather drove a lorry in the Cyrenaica, the North African Desert of Libya.
The German army in the Second World War relied on horses due to the scarcity of fuel.
Interesting information, thanks for that.
It's sad that stories of war time can bring people together. My father was a translator for the Germans during WWII at age 12 and my Uncle flew planes.
@@robertallardice8119 They had fuel shortages later in the war with a 20% mechanized army.
Armee=Army
One of the most fascinating aspects of this channel is how it connects people around the world ...
Thank you, Noraly, and continue to have a safe trip!
Greetings from Austria
You’re work ethic is amazing. How you are managing to keep all the films coming with such regularity and with such fabulous content is just incredible. So thank you Noraly for your hard work, positivity and dedication, you are truly very inspirational. Please take a break when you need too though, as I know you will 😘😘
Wow Namibia has got some great potential for movie locations. :)
The way I am learning a lot about the country I was born and live in is so amazing. Please keep up the good content,showcasing the beautiful Namibia 🇳🇦
Our Namibia is a gorgeous country 🇳🇦 Flying the flag high
Thank you for showcasing a special part of Namibia and for doing your research into the history to give it context. I hope you have a wonderful trip and the rest of your stay. Enjoy!
Love this trip through Namibia and fascinated with your historical references Noraly. Just loving it...
Noraly, when you give the change for the man in the gas station, its melt my heart. You such a nice person. I am sending you my prayer from Indonesia.
The guy was realy nice ;)
@@bfa9446 Yeah, you right...
South Africans and Namibians are brothers and very nice people, especially to strangers
@@judeekgole6165 So nice...
Thanks to you. I have started planning my motorcycle trip from Sweden to Bosnia with a good friend of mine. It's hard not to get caught up in your videos with your wonderful personality. Keep up the beautiful work you do!
Interesting. I could not even imagine how Namibia looks like. Thanks for teaching me
You are a very adventurous and brave woman Noraly. We envy what you are doing and of course your passion for history being a qualified geologist by profession. Very few people that will do such a trip on their own - we salute you.
You must pop in to Stellenbosch when you're back in SA so that we can treat you to a wine tour...
What a srrange place, Luderitz... But beautifull accomodation.
And what a beautifull country again!!
Geweldig fijn ook deze serie weer te volgen.!!
Luderitz is a fabulous place, but with a feeling of the end of the world. One of my favourite towns in Namibia.
I was in Luderitz for the centennial celebrations, in 1983. I took a military band there , which I picked up in Cape Town in a DC-3, flying at 50 feet along the skeleton coast . Quirky little town with not much to do as a tourist. The power station was assembled from parts imported from Germany, in the early years of the city. Try the snoek pate, while gazing at the grey foreboding fishing harbour in late afternoon. Delicious! Nearly as good as paling from Kampen!
And the Galjoen, best weskus vis.
I love the way that I have learned so much about Africa, that I never new before. I didn't know that Germany had colonized Namibia.
Many of the European powers took colonies there in what became known as the "Scramble for Africa" - Colonial Imperialism; see Wikipedia for more.
Resources were the desired target and weapons were the means. Disgusting really, given the native local peoples were either killed, moved or deprived of any of the ensuing wealth - as are some today !
@@thetessellater9163 cry me a river
@@thetessellater9163 yea you need a bit more learning because your showing your ignorance
@@thetessellater9163 Wikipedia is not very accurate when it comes to Namibia/Deutsch Südwest Afrika. History is written by who ever is currently writing the history books. Old original books/documents telling the events of what really happened are easily burned.
The understanding was that land was to be purchased from locals- not grabbed. Either by the German Empire or settlers.
When we look at the price paid for this land it seems pathetic, until we realise that a hundred+ years ago the sums paid were actually a lot of money. Many german farmers still have the original deeds of sale between their forefathers and local chiefs. The killing started after some rival chiefs claimed that land cannot be sold. Settlers were massacered in huge numbers for 'stealing' the bought land. The chiefs who sold the land were never taken to task by their tribes. All the blame was shifted to the buyers. This eventually lead to war.
Many pictures of 'slaves in shackles' that are displaid now were actually prisoners (farm murders). Inscriptions of old newspaper articles are simply removed as it does not fit the agenda. (The only slaves in this country were kept by local tribes -and still are today to a certain degree in some areas.)
Today's local elite loots the country far more than any colony has ever looted Namibia. All wealth only goes to the selected few in power. Zero development takes place for the country.
I hope that Noraly will show the true poverty in our country and compare it to the wealth of the elite who grabbed the money.
Namibia (South West Africa) was one of four German colonies in Africa, the other three being Tanganyika, Cameroon and Togo.
I know why people are addicted to your Videos...including moi 😀 It's because not a dull moment !
And again Itchy Boots shares a lot of information on the history of Namibia. Well done and success with editing and sharing your experiences!
Amazing how cool the locals are, I didn't except that at all after hearing all those negative stories in the news about South Africa and the surrounding countries. Thumbs up, really!
Expect
Namibia is a special place ;).
In South Africa most of us get along and want to build a better land for our self’s and our children………. The politicians mess things up🙄
Envy
As with most groups of people, you always have a few who can't/won't conform socially and endulge in criminal behaviour. The trouble is that it is often a "simple/straightforward" crime done in a horrendous way. Pity though, it is a stunningly beautiful place.
Itchy - I so love your history and geology stories! I learn so much from you!
You make histoy / geography so nice. I remember it being boring in school. I whish you were my teacher ")
Very interesting history lesson to go along with the cool sights...especially the end 🤣. You never disappoint! Love your work! Have fun and “let’s go” 🏍🇺🇸
Hello from Portugal. Bartolomeu Dias the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa in 1488 and demonstrate that the most effective southward course lay in the open ocean well to west of the African coast. His discoveries effectively established the sea route between Europe and Asia.
My family’s neighbour in Pleasant Point New Zealand was the first man to fly a plane. Months before the Wright brothers. The engine is still on the farm rotting away behind the last shed.
Diaz turned around just after reaching the southern tip of africa to prevent a mutany, later he did round africa but under the leadership of Vasco da Gama.
On a later trip around the cape he died in a shipwreck.
Diaz's original name for the cape was "Cape of storms".
@@bennievorster7693 It's Dias not Diaz, please, we are not spanish 😂
My mistake. I'm afrikaans speaking.
@@glennllewellyn7369 he screwed that up rather royally didnt he ? No point in doing something so monumental first if you aren’t going to record it in some manner.
I loved the trip to see the horse poop, then the awesome well kept railroad tracks, and the wooden bridge that needs a bit of repair. Joking of course. I loved all of it. Beautiful area. Especially the scenery from the cross.
This is lovely Noraly! When I was young my little sister was so scared to walk over that bridge at the Diaz cross - it was still intact, but with a few scary gaps. The sea was so rough the few times I was there, you would get wet from the foam of the waves crashing onto the rocks.
About what year would that have been when the bridge was mostly intact?
@@mikemauck2192 In the sixties and probably seventies - I was there in the 90s but cannot remember in what condition it was then.
@@mikemauck2192 10 years ago you could still walk over the bridge at your own risk. I see it has now been demolished.
So proud to be from the southern part of Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia etc) - modern, beautiful, peaceful, amazing landscape and friendly climate as compared to most African countries. Not forgetting our amazing friendly people.
Southern part of Africa is amazing but that's an ignorant comment there. Something I would expect from those ignorant people from outside Africa. Compared to most African countries? How many have you been to? Ever heard of people contemptuously disparaging Sub-Sahara African countries? They sound as irksome as you do.
I came to Lüderitz in 1981. It was a purely German place then, but almost dying. About 400 inhabitants max. and German was the main language spoken. Like in large parts of Namibia at the time.When the locals discovered, that I came from Germany I was invited to “coffee and cake”in the afternoon and had to visit five different families. They all wanted to hear everything about how Germany was. Many of them had left Germany right after WWII, looking for work, initially working on a 2 years contract. Then they got stuck there and some had not been back since then. But they knew everything about the German Bundesliga!
I'm from Luderitz and I think you mean there were 400 whites otherwise you are so wrong.
@@ernestsolomons178 Dear Ernest, that may well be the case. I only passed through as a 22 year old young German who listened to what the people I met told me. I can see the flaw in the way I looked at it then and described it here. Please accept my apolgies.
No problem. Just corrected you Friend. There are 3 schools in Luderitz. Now you can imagine.
1981 is long time. There were about 12000 people in Luderitz in 2011. The town has rebounded after independence. Its the headquarter of the rock lobster industry. Port has been expanded and soon its the centre of massive green Hydrogen plants to kick off in next 2 years.
Really enjoying this series as a Namibian. I've visited most of these places multiple times but you seem to shine a new light on some of our locally known beauty. Keep up the great work!
Pretty interesting to know, that this area was used to be a German colony before and so they first discovered the diamonds in there. Thanks for this lovely coverage and also the mysterious clouds touching the landscape looks mesmerizingly beautiful, really there are lot to explore and learn things about it.
Seriously, who could give any of Noraly's videos a thumbs-down.?!
The historical background was very interesting.
My wife and I are enjoying travelling with you. We catch every episode on the big screen, but there isn't a "thumbs up" to click on. So every now and then we catch you on the laptop or tablet and click on the "thumbs up." We'll never be able to travel as you do, so we really enjoy and appreciate your taking us along. You capture the kinds of things we would see if we were along with you. Like the unlocking of all those gates, struggling on the rocky steep slopes, the trail and the steps going up to the gate, the explanations of things, the geology of the canyons. All good.
Hello from Nova Scotia!
Being from South Africa, I’m loving your current series Noraly! Enjoy every moment 😎👍
South Africa to Nova Scotia... that´s quite a change :)
Glad you got out mate.
From NS, currently in Alberta. Was going to ride back there this year but NB and NS are still in lockdown.
@@glennllewellyn7369 I got out but came back homesick.
I’m from SA too. I also spent 4 years in Namibia is a kid. I live in Alberta now. Totally enjoying this season.
You are my eyes to the world... Love you Noraly and million times Thank you 🌹
One night some years ago I was driving between Aus and Luderitz when I saw something very rare: a meteorite so close that one could hear it and see the flames trailing behind it - very spectacular! I was lucky enough to see another one one night at the Cederberg Astronomical Observatory.
@@parthasur6018 No I am not but he is really something! There was also Fanie de Villiers - one of the best fast bowlers,, but unfortunately during the time when we did not play much international cricket otherwise he would have been famous. Other players affected to a large extent in this way were Barry Richards and Mike Proctor.
Very cool trip today! The service station attendant was so gracious. He seemed genuinely surprised and appreciative of the small tip. Beautiful scenery in today’s video! Ride safe Noraly!
Your history and geology narratives are so interesting. Thanks, Noraly
Masterclass history by our Noraly. Where is this takin place, on an open road see all spoaken with a great smile on here face. Another pearl on here crown, great video, big thumbs up. Super, klasse 👍👍🇾🇪
Thank you for the history report today. 🇺🇸
7:00 ”goodbyee hooorseees…” stuck in my head…
Always a BIG thumbs-up.
The cold mornings is from the Cold Atlantic Ocean current.
Expext lots of morning mist.
Cold Benguela Current, very rich in marine resources.
People who have given thumbs down for this vlog, kindly stop watching every other vlog. How can one do that. Even some men will not dare what she is upto. Bravo, Noraly.
13:39 Nice to see my country (portugal) history intact in other countries. Bartolomeu Dias was the First European Navigator to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indic, through the southest part of the African Continent
Billionaires want to go to Mars, I want to go to Namibia, oxygen is free there.
The carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one.
Bluest sky you'll ever see.
I agree with you.
@@G58 My aim is keep my children and others from 'being in fear'
💕💕 love my country!
I really enjoyed watching your Namibian episodes. Everything you said was so accurate like you live there especially on the colonial history and all the places you visited. It all reminded me of the three years that I spent there. Honestly it's Iike I had revisited Namibia. 🤙
Last time there was a kitchen you were frying (attempting to fry 😜) ostrich eggs.... what will you surprise us with this time? Great episode, history lesson, scenery. It's amazing how few people are around in some of these towns. Safe riding.
Hahaha no ostrich egg this time, I promise 🤣
@@ItchyBoots :D
I was going to say you should be a teacher, but, you already are! Thanks for all the lessons Noraly, best adventure channel on TH-cam!
It’s impressive that you read up on the local history of the place that you are traveling in, so many people don’t. It makes travel so much more interesting.
I can’t watch this right now. I am in season 1 episode 90. Starting from the beginning!!!
This is the best channel on TH-cam. PERIOD!
Thank you Noraly. Sharing your adventures while learning about these amazing places and their histories and people is a wonderful experience. Have a fun and safe travel.
There she is!! Let's get the 'Aus' from here... Good you're a good tipper and pantomime.... kids liked it. Enjoy the history lessons,... how young Nambia is in years as a nation .. the empty wild horse deck, maybe next time... a horse might just join you somewhere along the road...... with you everything is possible. Amazing that they survived in these harsh conditions. That's funny, a pooh spotter.... No panic GPS vs Guess Work.. 1488 Diaz Cross... amazing the exploration history from that time... the Germans were builders... look at those houses. One of them look like a grain warehouse. Has such an interesting history and archeticure. 400 Nambia Dollars is 24€. Is that conversion correct? Have a good rest, be careful, stay safe...
Today it would be 23.95 euro, so you are correct.
Hi Noraly, this is Amit. My daughter loves watching your channel...
You inspire her...
Love & best wishes from India...
2:30 hi! I really like it when you talk to local people and get to know their story. Have a good trip. 😊 ❣️
Noraly takes a special detour to show us the wild horses viewing platform love it no horses today. Oh well at least we saw some horse poo. Great history lessons stay safe Noraly xxx
Hello from Australia and love following your travels. Thank you for bringing us such great videos.
NSW.
WOW! Such spectacular scenery... I would have never known. Thanks to our Itchy Boots Woman.
Noraly, iam found Your chanell 3..4 mounth ago, and untill today watch them all !! I Have a small old motorbike Peugeot 50 cc and with him i am driving thru National Park, Biokovo (You also visit Biokovo with Basanti. ) and Very Glad to
visit my Town, Split, Croatia..where i am live. Most of
Big Town where You visit, i was contact via my amateur radio station.
That's also my hobby...So Keep That Nice Smille and Drive Safe. I wish You All the Best in Your African Tour. Respect and Enjoy.!
I love your travels and the stories you tell us about the information you get!!!! Great job!!
You are a very humble woman and you seem to be content with what is there.
No sign of Feral horses but they left “presents” behind to let you know they were there. 🤣😂😅
What an interesting place!
In our area they call those presents "road apples", lol. We still have Amish near us that use horses and "buggies" for transportation.
We were here. *poop*
in 1915 in World War 2, my Ur-Ur Grandpa had been war-prisoner in the camp for german soldier in Aus. :-) And my grandmother lived in Lüderitz and Swakopmund a few years in the 20 and 30th in the last century. One day, I want to visit Namibia. Thanks for your videos.
I have learned so much following your amazing journeys Noraly, you are truly fantastic.
Thanks for little history of Namibia ...☺👍🙏
The horses get used to see so many diamonds that they simply ignore Noraly 😂
I love the music with the view of the road and the desert
I'm Portuguese who follows your channel. I really like your travels. So good to see points of interest wherever you go where you have the brand of Portugal. Have a nice trip around the world, hug. This text was executed by Google translator Worth ir english is not perfect
Your Google translation is just fine.
After a long day working there is nothing like eating your dinner in front of the TV being educated and relaxed by Noraly’s explanations of her surroundings and the incredible landscape videography (and music). So restful.
Fantastic Tour guide trip, very interesting History & Geology in the wild places of Namibia 💖👍👍👍Many Many thanks for going there Noraly it's really appreciated
That deserted cape cross place looked like the ideal location for a dystopian Werner Herzog film noir :) I can imagine a breathless, plague-ridden Klaus Kinsky being pursued over the rocks by zombie sailors with the sound of a ship's bell ringing in the background...you take us the nicest places Noraly!
Hope the accommodation has a big bath...a luxurious treat, every once in a while. If you're heading to Damaraland you might get to see the super- rare desert elephants....harder to spot than feral horses
Oh no I have reached the current episode! haha I have been binge watching your playlist for a week now, I love your content and adventures so much. Ride safe!
OMG itts Perth motovlogger Kato
Yooo is that YeahKato?
LOVE ME
@@tristan3510 NO
I don't know how you are able to ride so much and still have energy to put out these wonderful videos every few days, but I sure do enjoy them. I appreciate the educational aspect of these videos as much as the beautiful scenery . Thank you
This is yet another absolutely amazing vlog 😍🔥❤👍🏻
Loved the Bartolomeu Dias Cross Marker !!! Portuguese are everywhere !!! Beatifull Journeys, always seeing your videos !
When I was in Namibia, Luderitz was closed off to anyone not working for the diamond mines. You had to apply for a special permit to travel there.
I am so hooked on this series. Great watch indeed.
Namibia looks absolutely amazing so far
Proply homesick now 🇿🇦. Watched episode 1 to 41 yesterday and today. Well done, Noraly, your trips and videos are extremely inspiring. You're going to looooove Namibia 🇳🇦. Plenty good dirt roads to choose from.
Watching from South Africa, was wondering when we were getting a new episode.
Noraly has been producing 3 episodes a week (!) (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) on a very regular basis since early in her trip to South America (other than the time when she is between travels, of course). That’s really an impressive achievement to make 3 high quality videos per week and still have time to go on fantastic adventures!
Noraly, thank you for the history lesson. The history, horses and Dias overshadowed the riding in this episode for me.
Always fun to ride with Itchy Boots, getting to explore and learn a lot of things from a room ❤️. Lots of love ❤️
That made my day after filling up telling the pump atenndent to keep the change the smile on his face was priceless.
That's where my granddad went to war with his horse, Punch, at age 17. The invading force was entirely South African, I think. Britain provided naval support, although there might also have been some artillery (they sailed in a classic Cape storm, with wave crests higher than the decks - so the could see nothing but water all around when in a trough - but this apparently saved them from a submarine that had been tasked to sink them).
Punch died during the war, so none of those wild horses are his descendants.
Their campaign was basically an effort to move faster than the Germans, to force them to fight (it was a very small German force, so there was no question of them preferring to stand and fight against basically the Boers (who could shoot straight, as the British found out just a few years before in the Boer War). They raced through the desert, with the Germans doing what they could to delay them, and keep them busy there instead of some other field of conflict. They would travel in mounted patrols of 5 men (the Natal Carbineers), scouting ahead of the main forces, hunting for the Germans. At night it got literally freezing cold (that Benguella Current makes the desert, and makes the interior potentially very cold). They would lie right up against each other to keep warm. That meant that on one's "outside edge" nights there was no sleep; your job was to provide some warmth for the "inner three". When it came your turn to sleep in the middle spot, you slept like a baby. On my granddad's patrol, one night a puff adder happened to live near where the patrol slept, and decided to snuggle up on the chest of the man in the middle, because it was nice and warm there, and puff adders also don't like to freeze at night. I forget how they got it off him now. Probably killed it, the way people used to deal with snakes in the old days. (People like my brother, these days, would rather die than kill a snake for sleeping on them, and would rescue it; times change; the people of the past couldn't possibly be anything other than people of their times?)
One of the things that happened near Luderitz was the first aerial bombing ever. While they were establishing their "beach head", the Germans at Aus (just a rail siding at the time, I think) had a pilot among them, with a civilian plane. One of the settlers who was into this new flying hobby, basically. And every day at around noon, he would fly over to the South African lines, and try to drop mortar bombs on them, by hand, from the cockpit of his plane. Very few of these exploded, so they stopped running away, and would try to shoot him down with their rifles (impossible, basically). Then he got clever and tied little parachutes to the ends of the bombs, and they had to run for it when he appeared, again.
There's a lot of fog in that desert (some of which I think you might have seen the last of, there), so one day when they were catching up with the main German force, and a battle was becoming more likely, my granddad was out on picket, hiding behind a bush somewhere in that desert, and it was so foggy that day you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Then he heard a little sound - not really a noise, even - and at that moment the fog lifted a bit, and there, on his horse, looking like he felt like there was something badly wrong with this place, appeared a German officer from the mist. He stopped. He scanned the area. My granddad looked at him down his rifle sights. Everyone was still in the clearing in the fog. Grandpa keeping still so as not to give his position away, German keeping still, trying to see if there was something real out there spooking him. And then the fog started to thicken and the German rode away. (I got the idea my granddad was glad not to have had to shoot the man.)
You might see signs to a place called Gibeon on the way to Windhoek. That's where the battle was actually fought. From the ordinary soldier's perspective it was just a chaos of dust and explosions. At some point they got given the order to charge into all the dust. One man got caught by a dangling telegraph line, in the neck, and lay on the ground screaming, "They've cut my head off!" over and again (which they thought was funny, and forever teased him about after). Not long after that, they took Windhoek. A lot of the German force managed to escape to the North, and they managed to tie up the South African forces for quite a while longer from there, but my granddad's unit was discharged, and that was the end of the War for him.
So there's the "short version" of the war, as far as I remember it.
As far as the padrao (cross) goes, AFAIK the Portuguese ships would carry these on board as "territory markings". So Dias didn't make one (they didn't stick around long in "little bay" as they called it). He must have just assumed that he was close to the southernmost point of his explorations, so was claiming the land for Portugal (against other Europeans, rather than _from_ the indigenous people - of whom he may very well have seen not one on this landfall).
As far as horses go, they're desert animals (or are well adapted to desert conditions anyway - think of Central Asia; and the famous Arab horses, too).
As far as the emphasis on the syllables of Namib goes, you should probably ask a Nama while you're in Nama country what's correct, but I think it's NAA.mib (emphasis on the NA syllable). Nuhmibia is an English pronunciation of the name of the whole country that doesn't preserve the pronunciation of the desert it's named after.
Luckily for you I've forgotten the next thing I was going to say. :-) Enjoy your further adventures!
That was interesting thank you very much!
Interessant !
@@etiennecfourie777 Thanks. I've just remembered what the other thing was that I was going to say.
The Germans set up machine guns facing backwards on donkey carts, so that they could fire, retreat, fire, retreat, and also keep firing when pursuers were getting close enough to hit on the move. During one of the engagements, my granddad was part of a unit pursuing one of these carts, when at one point he thought he'd been hit. There was no time to stop and see, so he just kept riding until the engagement ended, and then inspected himself for damage. He'd been wearing his greatcoat, so it must have been early morning and frosty, and he'd had his round metal waterbottle under the greatcoat on a strap round his neck. This bounced around all over the place on a galloping horse.
He saw a dent in the water bottle, opened up some more clothing, and found that his ribs on one side were one big bruise. So it would seem one of the rounds from the machine gun had caught the water bottle on an up-bounce without penetrating it, and the force of this "ricochet" was enough to hit that padded water bottle hard enough against his ribs to cause a lot of bruising. (And it was sore, I seem to remember him saying.)
We still have the water bottle. I gave it to a younger cousin of mine for safe-keeping.
(and at this point I'll "split my reply" just to have something to say to guy de herdt). :-)
@@guydeherdt9917 Further to the further comments I had for etienne c fourie, after that engagement where he nearly got shot, my granddad ... went looting I suppose. I think there was a broken down cart or something, or maybe they just overran some lines where there were still supplies and things left behind, and he found a big German world atlas there. To get it to fit in his battle gear, he tore off the cover.
And I suppose it wasn't really looting, because he gave it to his commanding officer in case it was of some intelligence value - which was the reason he collected it in the first place. It might have given some idea of the details of German geographical knowledge at the time. It had some pretty good maps in it. However, I think it was just a good quality civilian world atlas of the time. (They gave it to him at the end of the campaign, and he had it rebound when he got home, so it became part of a few generations worth of family homes here.)
Very interesting, thank you for sharing your granddad’s experience in that war. It is good when people share their own experiences, and their family’s history, we are all more alike than different. Wonderful history lesson added to Noraly’s excellent historical information as well.
Ois is one of my places of choice, just love the village history and energy. Brandeberg In is just amazing.
hello from Greece! we wait for some comparison with your bike with your previous ones,, sometime!!
keep up!!
“Kala spero!”
@@jeremyreid9582 !! its kalispera ,καλησπερα
but ok!!! greetings!
@@kostasrestas thank you - I know how to pronounce it but as you witnessed, I have no idea how to spell it.
Hope to return back to Greece soon, for vacation. 🇬🇷🙏🏼
You're proving that folks can travel anywhere without spending $20K USD on a 400Kg ADV bike. Travel light!
Your videos became a source of happiness to me. 😊
WOW,,ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY LESSON,,I LEARN SOMETHING EVERY UPLOAD
This is soooo amazing !!!!!! she came all the way from Netherland to teach us Namibian history...
You are into one of my favorite areas... Those clouds hang on the shore line almost all the time this time of the year... Have fun and use your geologist trick and you may get into some of those restricted areas... Your Namib journey is only just starting and I know you will have fun... BTW - those germans there are the nicest and most friendly people I have ever met...
What a fearless woman 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Energetic and brave Ichi
God gave you a big heart, thanks for sharing your ventures with us.
Het was een leerzame mooie video Noraly, en wat een heerlijk appartement met balkon en mooi uizicht!
Succes met je PC werk.
Hartelijke groetjes vanuit N.Holl Hanneke.
Ik studeer Nederlands en nu, ik kan dit lezen!
@@c150gpilot Now I'm curious to know where you come from and why you're studying Dutch.
Oh, sorry! Nu ben ik nieuwsgierig waar je vandaan komt en waarom je Nederlands studeert.
Noraly gaan Afrikaans ook kan praat na haar reis deur Suid Afrika en Namibia😁
Hanneke ek agree met jou. Baie mooi podcasting van haar. Sy is lief vir ons land ek dink
I watch your videos as if I am your pillion rider and watching the world with excitement and learning. What else you need in mid 60s to relax and watch adventurous experience at your finger tips, thanks to Ms Noraly.