Wind pomp fees - Naboomspruit-Organisers tread us whith respect

After the mess with our stall at the Windpomp fees we where of the lucky one's to do some business. There where only two sweet stalls at the fair we where the lucky ones.As I was talking to the rest of the traders at the fair it was apparent that some of them where told that they are the only ones with a certain product, the poor toy stalls where the one's to bear the brunt of another organiser who again lie to the stall holders.
How is it possible that organiser can tell a person on the phone that you are the only one with a certain product on the fair and do not realize that you will buy a lot of stock for that event and when you arrive there,there are six or seven other stalls that sells the same product as you.
How is it possible that these organisers don't understand that our stalls are our only income and that their dishonesty can cost us our only income and livelihood.
Why is it that as soon as we pay our totally over priced stall fees into their bank account's, months in advance we are treated as second class citizen's by some of them.
It most certainly is our own fault that we are being treated in this why, we are the ones that allow the organisers to lie to us and to treat us like we are nothing.It is time that we stand together and don't allow that to happen any more.
We the traders must realize that the shows and festival's need us and our money just as much as we need them to sell our stock.
Without us the traders there will be no big festival's or shows.

Windpomp fees - Naboomspruit

We traveled on the R28 from Randfontein to Pretoria were we took the N1 highway. We went past Warmbaths (Bella Bella) to Nylstroom (Modimolie) from Nylstroom to Naboomspruit.
We arrived at the fairground early afternoon and waited for the person in charge to show us to our stand. Somewhere there was a miss understanding, the stall we where taken to is in a tent and we work out of a vending trailer so there is no way we can work in a tent. We were shone another stand witch I excepted after I made it clear to the organizer that I am not happy at all, so we will see what happens next.

Stop smoking

Last night on my why back from the Wonder boom airshow I decided to stop smoking. I don't no why I decided to stop right then and there I just did. To me it is much easier as what I thought it would be. O yes I thought about stop smoking before not once not twice but many times before but always left it for another day. But this time I am going for it hard, and when I say hard I mean hard man. Easy it will not be, all most every body I know smoke.I decided long time ago that when I stop, I am not going to make every body around me miserable by complaining about there smoke in my face. You see the why I figured, is that I smoked so much, in the last twenty three years, that I cant show the finger to no one.
Well it is twenty four hours now that I last had a cigarette and I must say that I feel fine just fine.
It is not that I don't have the cravings, but it is not so bad and it does not last so long as one would thought.


Thirty eight hours: 8h00-2011/06/13
Yes I know it is a bid much but I made it, thirty eight hours with out a cigarette to me it is time to celebrate.



2010/03/15-07:45
Hi all fought it,s hi time that I report back about me and the smoking.It,s been almost nine months since I stop ed smoking after twenty three years.
I have not touch a cigarette in all this time and is very proud of my self.

Unfortunately I gained twenty kilogrammes in the time that I did not smoke. I figured that it is not so bad I could loos the wait again,but that is a different ball game all together.
I love food all kinds of food.Sweet puddings and cakes and fudge Not to mention meat lots of fatty meat.
I tyred to eat less but to no avail our fridge has a glass door so when ever I walk pass the fridge I can see all the nice food thru the glass door. I can not help my self.The food draws me like a magnet.
The mince pies  and the Apple strudel are begging me to eat them.
So the battle go's on.

Wonderboom Airshow

From a vendors prospective the air show was a waist of time. Not one of the traders that I spoke to made any money at the airshow.As a matter of the fact we all lost a lot of money dew to the fact that the thousands of people that
 attended the airshow did not come to the vendor area because it was out of the way for them.
I spoke to a number of traders the said that thy would Rather not come back next year again,and will be looking  for some thing Else to do.
At R1600.00per stall  for the day to trade at the airshow one would expect that the organizers would have dune there homework and get the layout right at least.

The Infinite Travellers Team

Karel and Anita Van Der Merwe

Our mission

Our mission here at the Infinite Travellers Team is to travel  far and wide through    Southern Africa.  

We intent to see as much as we can and do just as much as we can and meet as many people as we can.
       To finance our adventure, we intent to sell handmade chocolate' and pix and mix sweets the best                                                we can find at Agricultural shows, and festival's.
                                          So where ever you might see us please come greet us.