Karl's farm the outside

Karl's farm (Karl is my friend's brother) was a typical old South African farm with the maybe not so traditional Nguni cattle (more about those later). The building is an old Dutch style farm but with gum trees. I know gum trees, or eucalyptus trees, are Australian but as I have already blogged about they are everywhere in Ethiopia but I may not have ever mentioned that are quite common on the old farms of South Africa.

Here is a shot of their backyard with the eucalyptus and the excellent fence building prickly pears.

And here is the front porch. What is a farm without a front porch?!

You can see under the porch a Nguni cow head mounted on the wall.