HAGUE PIT STOP
The Race Village in the Hague was very well attended and the entire layout of the displays, the lay of the land and the installed entertainment so much resembles the Cape Town Race Village even up to and including the big-wheel. Even the dolores on the quays and the dock has a resemblance, not to mention the Dutch people with similar features many of whom look so much like the South African "Dutchmen". Way back in the 1600's Cape Town South Africa attracted a large contingent of colonial Dutch settlers, whose offspring still live here, so that Afrikaans spoken there quite closely resembles Dutch and is somewhat comprehensible to Dutch speakers. To me, it just looks like this ancient link and its people influenced the layout of Cape Town docks, perhaps to look like the "motherland".
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