Campervan Cooking – Lemon Caper Hake
Lemon Caper Hake Ingredients 5 medallions of hake 1 tblspoon Butter Juice of one lemon Half a jar of capers Salt and pepper Parsley Methodology In a hot pan melt the butter, add the hake medallions that have been seasoned with salt and black pepper on the one side. Let the hake cook for […]
Campervan Cooking – Eclectic Beef
Eclectic Beef (feeds 6) You will need the following: Either an electric frying pan, a pot on a stove, or a normal fry pan. Ingredients 900 grams of beef (either topside, fillet, sirloin or other good graded beef) cut into bit size chunks. A tin of chopped tomatoes in their juice 2 onions finely chopped […]
Addo – Canadian Grizzly Meets African Elephant
The Addo main camp underground hide was the perfect spot for sundowners. We were joined by our new-found globe trotting campervan friends, Claude and Heygett, from Montreal. The old classic G&T combo was definitely on as the ambient temperature was still up in the mid twenties, and you can never go too wrong with this […]
Addo – In Search on Panthera Leo King of the Jungle
Dawn broke overcast and cool, the cloud cover low and threatening early morning rain. We managed to get to the gate by six fifteen. There to meet us was our old friend, the bespectacled “Little Tyrant” who enquired as to when we might be back and reminded us that he ended his shift at midday, […]
Addo – Hanging with the Hefalumps
I can’t believe that I have lived “down the road” from this fantastic national park for almost twenty years and this is my first visit. Addo is definitely worth the 9 hour trip from Cape Town. And if you happen to live anywhere on the Sunshine Coast, it would count as a sin not to […]
Port Elizabeth – The Friendly City… NOT
Arrived in Port Elizabeth after battling a howling headwind all the way from Port Alfred. The Fiat Ducato engine made life a breeze by providing enough vooma to keep us averaging about 80 kays an hour. Driving into PE from the North East is a nasty experience. It’s all industrial and urban decay. The “freeway” […]
Port Alfred Warf Street Brew Pub
Mention the word microbrewery and pub grub in the same sentence and I’m sitting up and taking note. That’s how we discovered The Warf Street Brew Pub. A casual conversation with some friends and in the middle of the chat there it was, the gem of Talfred, as the locals refer to Port Alfred. Now […]
Nguni Photo Shoot
The first time I heard of Nguni cattle, I was staying in a cottage on the Reenendal Road outside Knysna and preparing to ride the annual Rotary 50km mountain bike cycle ride. The farm we stayed on had recently bought a small breeding herd that roamed the paddocks. All I can remember was the stunning […]
Feathers Restaurant Hogsback – Fine Food
We first heard about this eatery from fellow campers Mike and Judy while stating at the Swallowtail Country Estate. Not to be confused with the Feathers Gallery in the Hogsback CBD which we had passed on several occasions, the Feathers restaurant is a few kays up the main road towards the Seymore road junction. The dogs […]
Leaving Hogsback on a Flatbed
Thursday 3rd January 2013 After packing up the campsite and preparing to leave Hogsback for Grahamstown, I decided to spray down the wheel arches to get rid of the mud that we had collected on our arrival. When I got round to the left rear wheel, I was unable to get my hands between the […]
Cintsa Beach Walk
It was another lazy Saturday afternoon in Cintsa. Tina was indulging in a siesta so I decided to take the dogs for a leisurely beach walk. One of the most appealing things about Cintsa is the pristine sandy beach that follows the curve of the bay for miles. Tina and I had noticed an astonishing […]
