Breakfast was a typical huge farm style meal. Not the best B&B though, breakfast is extra! Heading east over this undulating plain with the mountain range to the north, the road soon led down to the relatively flat plain of olive green fynbos to Oudshoorn. At a glance there is nothing to recommend the fynbos, […]
The lifts were still not working. I made two trips with my bags and the lifts then worked. David took his in the lift to L3 where the owner met us and then the spare flat key was missing. I made the trip up, then he found it in his bag. Not a good start […]
One can easily spend a week around Cape Town visiting the beautiful neat wineries, white gabled homes set against the high mountains, the cableway up the mountain, Rondebosch Botanic Gardens, many places in the city, walking trails up some mountains…. I wanted to drive the circuit around the peninsula ranges, which are effectively an […]
Because of its natural beauty, Cape Town can never be a disappointment; majestic, impossibly flat, Table Mountain, blue ocean, tucked away cove villages on the slopes, gracious white gabled homes hidden behind ancient oaks and trimmed gardens, or surrounded by neat lines of vineyards. Groot Constantia, Groot Schure, Hout Bay, Fishoek, Tokai – strange names. […]
I’m waiting for the Kenya air flight to Cape Town in a new spacious air-conditioned airport. On the ground floor so I will need to carry my 12kg bag up the stair. As we drove the 22km to the airport, on a wide well maintained road, lined by the green thorn trees, black-stemmed brown leafed […]
A sad departure at 7am. We are unlikely to meet again till that great day – Pauline (always the one with an appropriate remark) said I should have the kettle on for tea if I’m ahead. I will too! We had enough time to drive over the Hartbeestepoort dam wall with the last view of […]
After a great breakfast prepared by Pauline, Dave & I drove around his large block on the Magaliesberg ridge. It is a dry rocky area, with bare scrub bush, contrasting with the watered areas around the houses. The block has been divided into 3, for the two children Noel and Natalie. Apart for their houses, […]
I was up early and offered breakfast though we were promised packed last night. Pretty ordinary – fried egg, samosas, toast, tea. No butter. Hot water with milk. We managed to squeeze into the small taxi, had to exit at the Nairobi International airport barrier to walk through security while the car and bags drove […]