Humansdorp, Western District, South Africa
Sat 20 Oct: we left Champagne Castle Hotel's luxury (pic is the lounge where we played Scrabble after dinner most evenings) on a grey wet day, drove to Durban's King Shaka airport - an excellent example of football-inspired, 2010 World Cup, improvement - dropped off the car and flew to Port Elizabeth. It was raining, and streets were flooded; we drove to a dilapidated, bypassed town called Humansdorp for a night's 'basic accommodation'. It smelt terribly of dam...