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” […]
Blog Update – 14 January 2013
Arrived at Willows and were welcomed like old friends…dogs were treated like royalty, they even had their own permits LOL. That day, I spent searching and researching kennels. Also asked a few locals….looked like it was going to be ‘Inn Good Hands’ that won ‘handsdown’, excuse the pun hahaha. I called Audrey who owns Inn […]
The Wind Whistles Through The Willows
14 January 2013 So today we left Green Fountain, our friends the ostriches, the ducks, the Nguni cows and the zebras (those were those striped horses we saw when we first arrived). Wow, we have made so many new friends on our travels and we are only just beginning. Back in the campervan, Dad announced […]
Any Port in a Storm
7th January – 13 January 2013 Back in the campervan I decided to try my luck again at placing myself between the passenger and drivers seats. This time I was going to stand firm. But Dad was having none of this. So a squirt of rescue remedy down my throat, I was once again banished […]
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 […]
BARF for two Bullies
I was lucky enough to find a supplier of Dogmatters in Gonubie, so stocked up to the hilt before we left East London, bound for Port Alfred, however, John decided we need to keep our Dogmatters in case we are not able to find more for a while and attempt at making our own BARF. […]
Have no expectations, no plans, no further thoughts than todays thoughts.
I think in a nutshell, my headline says it all. I find it pointless planning anything further than today, because it might never happen. Look what happened when our campervan decided to collapse. We had planned leaving that morning, driving to Grahamstown, then onto Port Alfred. Hehehehe, the story never happened like that at all, […]
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 […]
Blog Update – 4 January 2013 – 7 January 2013
Natures Rest is exactly as it says – in Nature and Restful. We found a really nice site, other than one other campervan, we were the only residents. Our van faced the river and a sheer rock face. A willow tree sported a host of male weavers getting their nests ready so as to invite […]
Blog Update – 7 January – 14 January 2013
We left Natures Rest, after breakfast. So far,so good, with the campervan. The leafsprings that Fiat had installed to lift the van, were working a treat. Yay, so now we could attempt to travel a little further. We had made a booking, just the day before at Green Fountain Farm Resort, about 6kms from Port […]
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 […]
