Month: Sep 2014

Can you believe it? When we started it was hard to envisage the end; it seemed as if our trip would be for ever. Now a year has passed and it is the end. But let me be quick to add: the end of this trip; we plan to have many more in future… On… Continue reading Going Home

Calvinia is a typical Karoo town. It is dusty, with sparse greenery in gardens, if there is a garden at all, and the church is in the centre of the town with the streets built around it. Even the golf course has no grass; the “greens” are gravel, coated with oil and look like tar… Continue reading Calvinia & Carnarvon

En route to the Tankwa-Karoo National Park we popped in at the Waverley Hills Organic Wine and Olive Estate. What a wonderful place it is! All their wines, olives and products are certified organic. The garden is mostly indigenous and in the pond area they have attempted to emulate the Breede River eco system. Information… Continue reading Tankwa-Karoo National Park

It was 5 pm when we left AC Motorhomes in Brackenfell so we decided to find a relatively nearby campsite somewhere up the West Coast. Ufudu’s batteries were heavily ‘taxed’ during all the testing and setting of the electrics and had also not been charged during his stay at Diemerskraal, so Roger decided to charge… Continue reading Langebaan & Tulbagh

By now I am sure you have also come to associate an unscheduled visit to Rosebank with some form of unpleasantness or discomfort. And this one was no exception; in fact, it was probably the worst of all. We flew back taking all our dirty washing of the past few weeks as luggage and spent… Continue reading Rosebank, unscheduled…

The sky was crisp and clear after the cold front as we left Springbok. We decided that we had had enough of bad dirt roads for a while so kept to the N7 up to Vanrhynsdorp. Just before the turn off to Nieuwoudtville we stopped in at the Knersvlakte Spens to buy some more (you… Continue reading Nieuwoudtville to Cape Town