Come On, For Goodness Sakes, Where the Heck's Gaborone?
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Come on, enough fannying around. |
Okay, so what about a closer look at Botswana. The next map is one I got from http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-maps-botswana/botswana_pol95.jpg.
You will doubtless notice the star representing Gaborone on the southern border with South Africa, and lots of places mentioned in the Mma Ramotswe books, including Mochudi (which, you will remember, is where Mma Ramotswe comes from). We didn’t realise Mochudi was so close to Gaborone, until we saw this map. Just over the border, in South Africa, you can see Mafeking, where the British, apparently for the comfort of their staff, located their office overseeing Bechuanaland. Mafeking later became "Mafiking", and these days is apparently more correctly "Maheking" (although we might bet your life that's correct, we wouldn't bet ours!). Umm ... is that actually a place called "Wankie" just to the right of Chobe district? Hmmm. Sorry Zimbabwe, the fact we find that ... ummm ... "interesting" says more about us than you*[to the right] |
[From the left] *Before you ask, we find Ernst Wanke Drive in Pakenham, east of Melbourne, to be "interesting" too. Note, not Pakenham Upper (Note from Bronwyn: Actually, it's in Berwick; Lex just wanted to get in his oft-repeated *yawn* puerile joke about Pakenham Upper! *Yawn Yaaaaaaawn*). For more on Ernst Wanke Drive see http://www.danielbowen.com/2011/03/01/ernst-wanke-road/, and, yes, we did feel a frisson of guilt upon reading that, and now find it "interesting" in both senses (Note from Bronwyn: Well, Lex did, or says he did!).
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