S1 - Ep 397 - Tulbagh - An Unforgettable Journey Through Time!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Our journey through Tulbagh was nothing short of enchanting. It all began with a breathtaking rainbow gracing our drive, followed by a refreshing rain shower. Upon entering the town and spotting the "1699" date on the name wall, we instantly sensed the rich historical tapestry that awaited us. As we drove down the town's main street, we were struck by the impeccable condition of its venerable buildings. A leisurely drive through the showgrounds, bustling with preparations for the upcoming agricultural show, offered a unique glimpse into the town's vibrant community. The highlight was undoubtedly our visit to historic Church Street, where we marvelled at the incredible architecture. To think that some of these incredible buildings had been painstakingly restored following the 1969 earthquake was truly astonishing. Our trip to Tulbagh was an unforgettable journey through time and heritage, leaving us with a deep sense of awe and appreciation. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #westerncape #tulbagh
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Thank you for the effort you folks put into this series of videos. My history in South Africa covers every province other than KZN and as a child I have lived in many towns that I have never visited but through the work that you do, I now feel comfortable with being able to say that I am a little more aware of where I lived and what it may have looked like then and what it looks like now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you folks.
You're very welcome! 😊 When we decided to explore our own country before we head outside of its borders again, we also decided to share our experiences with folks like you and it gives us great joy to do so. Thank you for hopping on board each time as we explore new and familiar places. 🚙😁
Tulbach is such a nice town. Vegetation is stunning. I will never forget the 1969 quake. I was close by and it was a terrible experience. But they picked up themselves and look at the town today. Well done Tulbach perseverance indeed. This was a nice relaxing trip and i enjoyed it so much. Needless to say i am on board on the next one!
Yes, the earthquake was quite devastating. 😨 I was interested to read that you were not too far away when it all happened, the shock and devastation must've been terrible! The rebuilding efforts in the town were absolutely phenomenal though. 👌🏻🏡 Be ready for the next one! 🚙😁
I loved this episode, so much history. When you stopped in Church Street and Sonia was reading, you showed a house on the corner on the right hand side, just as you turned in to Church Street. That is Ballotina and belonged to my grandmother, Dr Mary Cook. She was a historian and was on the restoration team with Gawie Fagan and others. We visited her in that house. I am so very proud of her. We
I'm so glad you enjoyed our visit to Tulbagh. I was very interested to read about your grandmother's property and her involvement with the restoration after the earthquake. You must have such special memories of a special woman who you were lucky enough to call your gran. 😊 Thank you for sharing that with us. 😍
Thank you, and she was also the curator at the museum in Swellendam. She lived in the Drostdy there. There is a plaque up for her there.
When I hear the name Tulbagh, it always reminds me of that disastrous earthquake that happened there and surrounding towns in September 1969. We felt it here in Cape Town that evening. And Tulbagh also means to me the home of Tarzan shoes.....the best vellies in my wardrobe! And I have quite e few pairs. And of course the wine.. 🙂. Glad you two enjoyed Tulbagh.
I love it that wine features so often in your comments! 😁🍷 I think when folks hear 'Tulbagh', the earthquake is the first thing that comes to mind. And then the wine! Incredible that you felt it all the way in Cape Town. 😨 I never knew about Tarzan shoes before until I saw the sign at the showgrounds, that was a new one for me! 🚙👞
The people doing the repairs did a magnificent job. Thank you!!!!🙃🙏❤
That is no lie! If we didn't know it, we would never have said there was an earthquake in town.🏡👌🏻All credit to the folks who worked hard to make it possible.
Hi guys over load of beautiful cape Dutch architecture it amazes me how such a genteel town which would have been the frontier!!! The drive in with the mist on the mountains the rainbow what a great name valley of abundance! Because of the weather it really shows the red soil and the green vegetation. Loved the thatched roofs everywhere. The showground was intriguing especially the bit about the miniature horses we had one in the field next to the front of my house he was a terror my granddaughters called him Tiny I called him Tyson he lived up to that name and attacked the horses in front they had to get rid of him !!! . The kids singing was great 👍 it's to the towns credit that they have done such a good job of the restoration after the earthquake in 1969 Loved all the old buildings the history of Tubagh interesting how it was effected by the Spanish flu in 1918 witch killed more than the war in fact both of my wife's parents lost siblings. The Huguenots connection again!!! It must be a lovely place to live so much to see the ox wagon with the road licence only in South Africa. Sad about the station buildings but there was that familiar pedestrian crossing. Amazing video thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
That rainbow was something else! 🚙🌈 There was absolutely no shortage of incredible architecture in this beautiful town, I thought you'd love it! 😍 Oh no, I hope they found a good name for Tiny Tyson. 😢🐎 We were also fascinated by the little horses that were going to draw a cart, no less. I'm sure that was a sight! One tends to forget what devastating impact the Spanish flu had, I read up about it quite a bit in COVID times, when we learnt it was the first global pandemic since the one of 1918-1920. Scary stuff! 😨🌍 I also loved the licence discs on the ox wagon! 😁
Hi guys. Very impressed with Tulbagh, every town we go to I feel like staying behind for a while but then I have FOMO so I jump back in😊. Thank you for another amazing trip. 1st time I've heard of the earthquake they had, my head must have been buried in the sand.😢. 🚗🥰
It's a good thing you have FOMO! 😝 That means you jump on board every time to check out the next place we visit! 🚙😁 None of us know about everything that happened in the past, I can't even begin to tell you how much we learn and see in each place that we had no clue about. That's the magic of travelling!
Hi you two! Thank you for this amazing trip! Starting off with a rainbow no less! Looking around and listening to Sonia it becomes clear that Tulbach surely must be one of the oldest towns in the country. That drive down Church Street is a jaw dropping sight with all those gables and porches, beautiful green trees and gardens. The decision to repair and rebuild after the 1969 quake most definitely added to the charm and beauty of our beloved country. The variety of items and info in the Oude Kerk and the other museums (including the Missionary Church) is really amazing. The late artist Christo Coetzee was unknown to me and It was a bit scary running into him in the passage in his house😉
I really enjoyed the exploration of Tulbach. Looking forward to the next trip!
Keep safe!
What a perfect rainbow that was! 🌈😍 I'm still rather surprised that with the date of 1699 on that wall that it's only the 7th oldest town! The story of Historical Church Street is a special one. So many beautiful residences and buildings, all beautifully-restored and lovingly taken care of. Such a special place! I'm glad we could introduce you to Christo Coetzee and his interesting artwork! 🚙🖼️ It's places like Tulbagh which give us hope that perhaps a few hundred years from now, there will still be preserved buildings for our future generations to enjoy. 🤞🏻🇿🇦
I love your videos.
I appreciate that so much, thank you for watching! 🚙😁
Pragtig! Dankie julle. ♥️🇿🇦
Fun fact:The most destructive earthquake in South African history took place in Tulbagh, Ceres, and Wolseley on 29 September, 1969. Which claimed 12 people and destroyed alot of buildings.
I'm not sure I would call it a 'fun' fact, but very interesting. We were amazed at how the damaged buildings have been restored to its present-day condition. 🚙🏡
Pragtig,dorp so aan die voet van die Groot Winterhoekberge.
Agreed, it is a beautiful town in a spectacularly beautiful area. 🚙⛰️
Thanks for showing us Tulbach.....was there before.....and after the quake......! Gawie Fagan was the architect who was head of the Kerkstraat restouration.
My grandmother, Dr Mary Cook, worked with them RE the restoration of the houses.
@emmerentiagroene I can only imagine what a difference there must've been between before and after! 😨 Thanks for the info on the architect. 🏡👌🏻
Legend! May he rest in peace!
Wow wow wow 🎉🎉🎉 magic moments and I spotted Dusty 😊😊, thanks guys. Sonia I feel all the emotions through your narrative ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed Tulbagh with us! 🚙😊 It was a memorable experience for us too and the backstory brought everything to life. Dusty was so happy when I told him you saw him, he always loves a little bit of attention! 🧸🥰
Love that rainbow. I remember someone who mispronounced Tulbach Tool-Bag. Good to see so many Cape Dutch buildings around. Well do I remember that earthquake in 1969. WE felt it in Bellville. I was 9 years old, and this started up in the night, we all went running outside, I said "Daddy is the house going to fall down?" He said "I dont know." We were terrified! Fortunately our house was not damaged. The worst damage was out in Tulbach, Wolsely and Ceres. The old Pastorie is such a beautiful building. Yes, Land van Waveren...that brings back Std 3 history! Wow! The restoration is amazing. The old church is a real experience, I dont have the words. There used to be a wonderful restaurant called Die Paddagang back in my day. Dont suppose its still there. You drove right past the station name. There was a board to the right as you drove out.
The rainbow must've been the most perfect one we've seen! 😍🌈 It was a legitimate question at the tender age of nine. That must've been a super scary experience! 😨 I'm happy to hear that your house didn't sustain damage, but the experience will stay with you for a lifetime. Paddagang seems to still be in existence, but on Google it says 'Temporarily Closed', I'm not sure of the reason though. We have eagle eyes for station nameboards, so won't easily miss one. I think you're referring to the chevron sign. 🚙🚉
@@DustBugsTravel I am sure it was a nameboard, just briefly behind the vehicle on the right as you drive up the road.
Prachtige episode over Tulbagh! Even dacht ik dat jullie in Nederland reden, door het met recht ‘platte’land, met regen, en een boog 🌈, een rijtje keurig geplante boompjes langs de berm en een prima geasfalteerde weg. Nou ja, het is in Tulbagh weliswaar Zuid-Afrika maar toch ook heel Dutch 🇳🇱 met de Hugenoten er ook bij. Van mijn vrienden had ik al veel gehoord over Tulbagh, ze brachten als heerlijke souveniers voor mij een fles wijn en zwarte olijven tapenade. Geweldig dat zo enorm veel oude gebouwen nog steeds in uitstekende staat verkeren. Wel origineel, de achternaam van die dominee op de gedenknaald voor de kerk. Van Aarde en nu in De Hemel? En die andere dominee ligt er fraai bij in zijn eigen kerk, wat een juweel dat interieur. Het hele stadje lijkt wel een openlucht museum. Even hoopte ik dat zelfs het treinstation en het spoor ter plekke ook nog zouden functioneren maar dat was iets te veel van het goede 😢🚂. Enfin dat was de enige downer in een verder zeer onderhoudend reisavontuur. Ben benieuwd naar de volgende parel onderweg dus tot woensdag ‘ziens’ 👋
The rainbow was a beautiful sight as we drove towards Tulbagh. 🚙🌈 You must've savoured the wine and tapenade from this district, I bet they were both super tasty! 🍷I was intrigued by the graves in and at the churches, they tell so many stories of the ministers who served the area in previous generations. 💒 You're right, there is an abundance of beautifully-restored and historical buildings in this pretty town. I felt privileged to walk inside that old church, I'm always in awe of the workmanship of yesteryear. We shall see you in the next episode! 🚙
I grew up in Sea Point, and we felt the earthquake. Our whole house shook. It was quite scary. I was 9years old at the time.
I can imagine that it must've been super scary, especially at such a young age! 😨 No wonder the earthquake caused such devastating damages over a widespread area, I never knew it was felt as far away as Cape Town!
i was so excited to see this place. It is my next town I want to go live in. Soon if I am granted the time, I will move to this gorgeous place. thank you for all the rich history updates and stunning buildings to feast our eyes on. Universe must now align and I shall pack..........lol lekker daggie vir julle
😁 The list of places you love, is getting as long as ours! There are indeed magnificent buildings and residences in Tulbagh. Once you're settled in, you could go for Sunday strolls along Church Street and pick a different one to read up about the history. Imagine that! It's always fun to hear from you! 🚙🤩
@@DustBugsTravel im looking for a new destination. Shopping via your channel......lol. inam torn I must say. But tulbagh was 1st on my list. Love you guys💓💓💓🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
Kanyese's (hope correct spelling) broad beaming smile accompanied with his knowledge really made this episode for me and was like a ray of light, as did your extensive and thorough tour of the town. Those date palms were stunning. I recall that you visited a camp ground outside Tulbagh in one of your first episodes after stopping in Wellington for croissants if memory serves me correct. I would recommend the viewers to watch your early episodes too...😂 ...Tulbagh is in for a boom soon!
You were close! 😁 Khanyiso was very knowledgeable and super friendly. It's always fantastic to run into folks like him on our travels. 👌🏻 Your memory serves you very well indeed. You took me far back now. We were still going to do the camping thing (that didn't last long 🤷🏻♂️) and stayed over between Tulbagh and Wolseley on the very first night of our very first trip, back in October 2021! 🚙🏕️ Yes, and there were Wellington croissants on the backseat of the first Kwiddie! How special that you remember all of that, thank you!
One thing you'll find with these old stations is that the earliest station, in town, got replaced with something out of town or further out (basically because we imitated America, and wiped out old stuff to make way for the car - as a more or less exclusive means of transport, not just something nice to have).
"The new broom sweeps clean", and that didn't begin in '94.
I'm thinking, here, particularly, of Newcastle, which had some characterful old building in its town centre before ISCOR came, and a station people in town could've walked to (with all that old Victorian character). It was replaced by something brutalist (again in imitation of America, basically) way out in the industrial area. There was still a passenger station, but it was as awkward as could possibly be, to use it. (And a lot of the old buildings got replaced by more "up to date" things I hope future generations will have the good taste to demolish when they reach end of life. In some places, there's nothing left to save, and this goes back more than 40 years. (You might even find that by some cruel turn of fate that the featureless buildings of the times just before the present are going to survive for 500 years, and become what characterizes our times.)
Edit: I went and forgot what I actually wanted to say! A station named "X-Road" was usually a rural siding, I think. Once upon a time there was probably a Tulbach station, pretty much in the middle of town, or close enough to walk to it. And the reason you'd have to be Sherlock Holmes to find its traces would be because those who saved the houses in Church Street were OK with the station being erased. (Maybe there wasn't a station in Tulbach town, though. I'm just speculating.)
My thought is still that there was never a station in Tulbagh itself, only the one at Tulbagh Road that we saw as we were leaving town. 🚙🚉 I hope future generations maintain and preserve and protect for more future generations so that our country can also have multiple-centuries old buildings and places of interest for future folks to visit and marvel about. 🏛️
@@DustBugsTravel One possibility, as far as a Tulbagh town station goes is that it might have become a possibility late enough in history for the director of railways who saved Hermanus to have been in charge.
You might know Hermanus has a station, but has never had trains (only railway buses in the very old days). There were plans back in something like th 1920's (the "late enough in history part of it") to extend the commuter rails of the Cape Town area all the way to Hermanus, but the man in charge opposed this, to preserve the character of Hermanus.
(It's a nice place, today, but he failed. What he was trying to preserve is the old fishing village that has almost entirely been built over. There's one little fisherman's cottage left in town centre. And I knew a lady who was a baby in that very house - daughter of a simple fisherman who lived there and worked in the waters of that coast. But that's getting too far off topic.)
The completely speculative hypothesis I'm pulling out of the air here is that maybe that same chief of the railways who blocked expansion to Hermanus also prevented Tulbagh getting a station.
I"m guessing that a likelier scenario is that Tulbagh of the 1920's was too far off the beaten track to get even rail connection, and that this only came much later (but maybe with someone protecting the character of old Tulbagh by not letting a station be built there.
(It wasn't long ago that having a station was something that made a town grow. The growth of the Cape Penninsula towns was railway-driven for many years, for instance.)
And at the end of that I've really just talked a whole lot of air. Sorry. :D
I remember on the night of 1969 I was sitting in a car in my parents driveway and the car shook.Ive never forgot that day.
We felt the quake in Bellville that day.........
That's incredible! 😨
The buildings were lost in action!!!🙃🙏👍
Fortunately they were beautifully restored. 🚙🏡
Another great video. Delightfully presented and so informative. We should hit the town late March next year on our way from Montagu to Langebaan. Might stop for refreshments! Hopefully we don't get caught by an earthquake!
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed Tulbagh! 🚙😊 I have no doubt that you'll have sunny weather when you're in town. You will love this place. It's been 54 years since the quake and I don't know of any tremors and such since, so I trust you'll be completely safe. I'm so excited for you! 😁
Thank you!@@DustBugsTravel
Baie hartseer om te sien hoe Suid-Afrika se treine en spoornetwerk tot niet gaan.Hier in Gauteng word al die spoorlyne en kraglyne af gesteel.
It's terrible. What I find more and more amazing as we travel to more places, is the extensive network of rail infrastructure that our country possesses and it's all being destroyed. Really, really sad! 🚉😢🇿🇦
I lived in 34 Church str..
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Thank you for this wonderful visit to Tulbagh - I haven’t been there in years and have so many happy memories, rekindled by yourselves 😊🫶🏻
Thank you so much! 😁 I'm super happy to hear that our visit to Tulbagh reminded you of good times. Good memories are so precious, hang on to them! 🚙😊
Lovely....but PLEASE go again and make a couple of videos in "slow motion" for there is so much we want to see to absorb......thanks ❣
Ai, if they can just repair the streets as well as they repaired the houses in Church Street! Must be close to the worst condition of streets in the Western Cape!