{"id":21892,"date":"2024-05-10T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/paul-edith\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:41:38","slug":"paul-edith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/paul-edith\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul &amp; Edith"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>29.05.2016, Namutoni, Etosha National Park, Namibia<\/p>\n<p>A South African couple with an off-road caravan and a nice Toyota 4&#215;4 are camping next to us. Their team is positioned facing away from us, which is why there is no immediate contact. Then at some point the question: <strong>&#8220;You, do they speak Swiss German over there?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On occasion, we speak to them in Swiss dialect (Z\u00fcrid\u00fc\u00fctsch to be precise) &#8211; <strong>and promptly receive an answer in Swiss German<\/strong> (Z\u00fcrit\u00fc\u00fctsch of course!).<\/p>\n<p>One year of work for a well-known Swiss company in Johannesburg turned into over 40 years! Edith and Paul have lived in South Africa for over 40 years, are retired and spend more time traveling than at home. We get on really well straight away and we never run out of things to talk about. Paul &amp; Edith are also happy to share their personal travel experiences with us and provide us with travel documents. They are a few years older than us, but fresh, lively and full of life. They are an encouragement to us because we can see that you can still be alive after the age of 70.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-image align_none\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Edith-02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Edith-02.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Edith-02-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Edith-02-420x210.jpg 420w, https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Edith-02-840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"29.05.2016, Namutoni, Etosha National Park, Namibia A South African couple with an off-road caravan and a nice Toyota 4&#215;4 are camping next to us. Their team is positioned facing away from us, which is why there is no immediate contact. Then at some point the question: &#8220;You, do they speak Swiss German over there?&#8221; On...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-encounters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21896,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892\/revisions\/21896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}