There is no doubt that 13th Avenue Extension in Bulawayo wins the Pothole Prize!!
Remember that beautiful avenue with the giant palm trees
along the centre island Thirteenth Avenue goes past the once glorious old Railway station and becomes a dual carriageway on the way to Hyde Park Road. I think it used to be the Old Khami Road but is now called Clement Muchachi Road. (If my aging memory serves me correctly.)
I was looking for the Ministry of Veterinary services but 'potholed' my way dismally right past it. Now these are absolutely delicious potholes. A Honda Fitz would literally disappear and instead of driving like a demented nutcase, as were the other drivers on the road, I drove fearfully slowly in case I was devoured forever!!
Anyhow back to the Red Stoep Polish!
Now a 'Stoep' is usually a veranda, and often in colonial times, they were slabs of smooth concrete, meticulously polished in burgundy red or mid- brunswick green. Deadly slippery death traps when shone to perfection!
The Ministry Of Veterinary Services had such an embellishment. Endless corridors of red brilliantly polished corridors, half an inch thick that polish must have been, but magnificent to the eye!!
The offices themselves had glorious wooden floorboards, who knows what the wood was but it had sustained a hundred years of traffic, and was still as hard as a rock. The Hallowed Halls of the Veterinary Services was one of the foundations of Zimbabwe's civil service, providing the entrance to all of the gigantic livestock manoeuvres in the country.
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