The Tulbagh and Cederberg regions will be in our memory for a long time, not least because of the heat!We now know exactly what it is like to rotated on a kebab (sosaties as the South Africans call them). 47C is hot by any standards and we have sweated from parts we never realised we had!In Tulbagh we visited Chris Eksteen, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Chuch, who we'd met in Kruger back in July, and had morning tea in the Pastory (probably no such word but it...

Cape Town Thank You We reluctantly departed Cape Town to head north to Namibia via the Cedarberg Mountains and Springbok. This is the route taken by thousands of tourists during the wild flower season, we are just 4 months late or 8 months early to see it but intend coming back. We also want to return to see the migrating Southern Right whales close inshore and to revisit Cape Town to see the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and the view from Table Mounta...

Cape Town Part Two “Smokey spice ushers in purple mulberry fruit, good grip keeps tie lines taught” Reading this hotel wine list description (it was a Shiraz by the way but you already knew that) reminds us, if we needed any reminder, that Cape Town is different to most places we’ve encountered on our trip to date! Heike & Clint’s house in Somerset West was perfectly placed to do some quick tours of the Stellenbosch & P...

Cape Town Part One On arriving in Cape Town we put our faith in the GPS and arrived in Durbanville, the home of Ken & Nancy Roux. Their only mistake in the last couple of months was to chat to us in the pool at Twee Rivirien in the Kalahari and rashly offer their hospitality if we ever got to the Cape. Having taken over their house we put Ken to work on the Landrover and trailer (though I somehow managed to get involved as well, which wasn’t the...

Dear All Still struggling with internet connections. We've been fried alive in the Cederberg Mountains, 47 C for 3 days so decided to camp on the Atlantic coast at Lamberts Bay, 22 C and raining! Found this interent connection in a garage, but no CD drive to upload our Cape Town stuff. Lamberts Bay is famous for a huge Gannet colony but we haven't found it yet, they flew off last year but we've been assured they came back.! Lovely smell of stale f...