by Peter van der Walt | Sep 29, 2022 | Photos
I do believe in angels, but some of them have hearts of stone. You don’t get to watch humanity for any appreciable amount of time and not start to put some conditions in place for your compassion. Empathy is beautiful, but being taken for a ride and being made...
by Peter van der Walt | Aug 9, 2022 | Photos
Oh boy… if these walls could talk. They do. You can put your hand on them and feel all the way back to the early days, when it was a monastery (not a hotel and spa). I love stone walls because they tell a lot of tales. I also like the neat, ordered, structured...
by Peter van der Walt | May 11, 2022 | Photos
Say you’re a medieval peasant. Your life sucks. Your prospect sucks. Come Sunday – BOOM – you get to go to heaven. Even the dour Calvinists back in Africa gave their churches towers, and tried to make them look imposing. Buildings – in their...
