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leon gork tour guide
7 days ago3 min read
Camping in Magaliesberg
magaliesberg our camping site
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 31, 20242 min read
New Year 2025
Since the beginning nature has manipulated the life of the human being, but the human being from the beginning has dreamed of escaping...
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 15, 20243 min read
Beauty and Style
Beauty is not caused - it is
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 14, 20242 min read
Litterbugs
litterbugs don't consider others
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 11, 20243 min read
Spiritual and Material
Spiritual world is the real world
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 7, 20243 min read
The Swimming Pool.
Winter over, the swimming pool in the park opened its doors Scattered over lawn-covered terraces around the rectangle of shimmering blue...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 25, 20243 min read
The flood
Ginger went out into the dark and rainy night. Driven, as if by a force beyond control, to consort with a female feline, the tomcat...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 24, 20244 min read
The Lottery
A news item about a Tour Guides course, caught my eye. I immigrated to Israel. Lotteries were prohibited in South Africa, where I came...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 19, 20245 min read
The Path in the Valley
Bandy legs, arms bent at his side, pumping backwards and forwards like the pistons of a heavy truck, I see him wobbling up the hill, as I...
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leon gork tour guide
Oct 20, 20215 min read
Winelands of South Africa and Israel
Leon's No News Bulletin 137 S. Africa is a vast country by any standards; 1,221,000 km2, approx 50,000,000 people and about the same...
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 25, 20212 min read
The Tree
For man is a tree of the field. I walked away from my apartment, in the predawn darkness. I could pat myself on the back, because I had...
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 9, 20214 min read
Embattled Egos
The daily order of events took an ominously different turn after I began walking, my knapsack on my back, I’d left out my task of...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 30, 20212 min read
Dudu (David) the puncturemacher.
Thousands of kilometres and I’d never had a puncture, thanks to Eli. He’d checked my tyres for donkeys years. One day his mother died....
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 8, 20214 min read
Jerusalem a city of many worlds
The two young girls stood inside the gate, awaiting my arrival. I had promised to meet Chloe, who my cousin Margot, who lives in America,...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 4, 20212 min read
Landscape by Noga
The big room one sees on entering our front door is divided into two, first comes the dining area then the living room. My six year old...
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Litterbugs attack our park
Tens of tall apartment blocks had recently been built on the northern crest of the Tzofim Valley. Their white limestone facades looked...
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leon gork tour guide
Jun 24, 20212 min read
Covid Insight
Life was slowly returning to normal, after a year of lockdowns, wearing masks, not meeting with large groups of people. Each day Etti was...
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leon gork tour guide
May 30, 20211 min read
Disappointment
By what right or law do I expect tomorrow to be brighter than today? Where is it written that tomorrow will bring me happiness? Who told...
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leon gork tour guide
May 2, 20212 min read
Breaking the Rule
My search for shortcuts had begun at a very young age. You may think it absurd, but I think it began already when I was a baby sucking on...
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leon gork tour guide
May 1, 20212 min read
The Traffic Jam
The road worker, dressed in an orange protective suit, blocked our way and the way of dozens of other cars behind us. Waving his hands he...
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