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...

The Garden Route finale (Like London buses there are no postcards for weeks then several will arrive at once) We arrived in Cape Town on 6 January after a memorable journey along the Garden Route. It has been a blur of beautiful and empty sandy beaches, rocky headlands, yellowwood forests and fynbos, stunning walks, marine wildlife, very wealthy holiday retreats like Knysna and Cape St Francis, illegal settlements made of wood and corrugated iron and ...

Knysna has been a difference experience to the rest of our trip. It is more like the Med or the Californian coast than Africa. We've seen major wealth alongside extreme poverty, the contrast more stark here as the wealth is more obvious than anywhere else we've been. We encountered the usual Xmas/New Year holiday issues, like how to get in anywhere for a drink and how to avoid listening to Auld Lang Syne. On the plus side we've body surfed in the ...

Knysna 29 December 2006Well, despite the odds we’ve survived the Christmas festivities intact after 10 days at Tsitsikamma National Park.It’s been a pleasure to sit looking out over the southern ocean soaking up the wild raw beauty of the place whilst little Johnny hurtles past on his new skateboard/bike/rollerskates (delete as appropriate), or drives his radio controlled car in to my bruised toe (I slipped whilst attempting to dive off the swimming p...