As said: after we got our vehicle registration and second covid shot, we made the booking to hike the Fish River Canyon with Lut and Gerhard and Gavin and Lee. Now all our prep to go to Namibia got into fifth gear: last minute shopping, sorting out documents and necessary paperwork, doctors visit and a …
After our few days of R&R at St Helena Bay, we headed for the mountains. As we came closer to the Cederberg mountain range we could see snow on the top of certain mountains and got excited like little kids. Although we grew up in Europe and know proper snow, we’ve seen very little snow …
Most of June / July we hung around in Cape town, alternating between having work done at Trokkie by C&A Products and parking in front of my sister’s house to spend the weekend together. But mid July, when we had received our first Covid vaccine, our long awaited vehicle registration and Charles of C&A Products …
When we arrived back in Cape Town, after our wind farm detour, we knew we were going to hover around there for an undetermined period of time: spending family time, sorting out stuff for Trokkie and waiting patiently for corona vaccinations and car registration. We stayed put for a day or two at Ouskip camping …
We left Witsieshoek and drove towards Bloemfontein via Golden Gate National Park, which was as beautiful as always. I especially love the grasslands! It was dark when we eventually entered Bloemfontein and we put Miss GPS on, just to be on the safe side. Obviously she is programmed to find ways to avoid rush hour …
As we were still hovering around in Cape Town (waiting for truck stuff to be sorted) we took a drive to the West Coast Fossil Park via the R27 and passed the south entrance to the West Coast National Park. As we had been refused entry on the north side (Langebaan) a while back, we …
West Coast National and Fossil Parks December 2020 Read More »
While in Cape Town and camping (often) at my sister’s house, we got some more time to do things together. We had some more family braais, enjoyed a wine-lunch or two and took the dog for a walk to Majik Forest. Although written differently, it was indeed a magical place, right there in the suburbs. …
Happy 2021 everyone! A new year and heaps of new year’s resolutions, one of them trying to get up to date with our stories. I stopped writing for a Christmas break with our daughter and her family visiting from Jamaica and our last few stories of 2020 never made it to the blog. So here …
December 2018 Erika and family visited South Africa for the first time after their move to Jamaica. Christmas is the magic time and having missed out on the festive season with the family in 2017, there was no holding back. When the kids arrived, they spent a few days with us in Johannesburg and we …