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 …
After a night spent at the roadside just outside Sutherland gazing out at SALT, the Southern African Large Telescope, we drove up the mountain the next morning for a visit. Unfortunately we hadn’t been able to book a star gazing session with this formidable telescope, but a visit inside sounded quite exciting. (We were not …
After sitting around for the last month or two with longer and shorter trips in and around Cape Town, we got a renewal of the garage plates we are currently driving with, and left for Tankwa. We’ve always wanted to visit the great telescope at Sutherland and looking at the map, we figured we might …
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 …
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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 …