Monthly Archives: November 2017

Headed off for our final breakfast this morning. Lyn had done most of the packing last night, for some reason she wouldn’t let me help her! Last night for dinner we sampled some local meats, I had crocodile, Lyn had … Continue reading →

The weather seems to be slowly declining, dull and overcast this morning with the threat of rain. Cape Town is in desperate need of rain, the reservoirs are only at 25% of their normal level and getting lower. Water rationing … Continue reading →

After breakfast we headed off to find the most Southern point in Africa. Many people think this is at the Cape of Good Hope, but it is actually further east along the coast at Cape Agulhas. As it was a … Continue reading →

You’ll have to read further to see what we didn’t expect to see! Different place for breakfast this morning, at 2300 last night this place was heaving with students from the nearby Uni, this morning there was only us there! … Continue reading →

Today was just one of those days! It started off OK with breakfast, the hotel has an odd way of doing breakfast; they have teamed up with three local restaurants and they give you a 100 Rand ($9 Cdn ~$7 … Continue reading →

At least the title fits in with the last two, I’ll have to get creative again tomorrow. We left Robert and Molly and their fantastic hospitality this morning and headed out to the airport for our flight to Cape Town, … Continue reading →

At least the title fits in with the previous one! The last couple of days have been spent hanging around with Robert and Molly, doing some geocaching and getting in some walking exercise. This morning at 0800 we headed out … Continue reading →

Today we packed up and headed back to Jo’Burg, an 8 hour drive of about 650Kms. Where we Stayed – Kingfisher Lodge   The roads were mostly 2 lane with many hills and slow trucks, so our average speed was … Continue reading →

OK, as usual I am running out of titles but there is some relevance and it’s not the baked beans! We woke up naturally a little earlier this morning; early nights and the fact that finally my cough/cold has pretty … Continue reading →

We arrived at our new accommodation mid afternoon and after laughing at the “Beware of Hippos” signs (see yesterdays P.S.) we checked in.   Unfortunately there was a problem with the water, there actually was plenty of water just a … Continue reading →