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The Call of the Open Road – Heading East
South Africa is officially cold! Beautiful, friendly, easy to travel around but cold! We are heading into winter and the temperatures morning and evening can be anywhere from 6 to 16 degrees and generally damp. We recently had two days of 31 degree heat but apart from that it doesn´t get any warmer than late…
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Return of the Prodigal Son – It´s all about Henry!
For those of you that get your alerts on the Whatsapp group, you will already know that this is a very happy blog! We left you at the end of the last post excited that the MSC Chloe had finally moored in Cape Town but trying to contain ourselves during the long wait for Henry´s…
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Soaking up the Scenery on the Garden Route
We bought a fridge! That may not sound like the most exciting – or appropriate – thing for two nomadic travellers to do, however the lack of a camping fridge in the Hilux we were fitting out was the only thing standing between us and the open road. We had spent days trying to find…
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Busy Doing Nothing in the Western Cape
We have so far spent almost 3 weeks on our Cape Town shipping agent´s farm awaiting Henry´s arrival. At any given time he has always been about 2 weeks away! Frustrations abound but the farm is lovely, we are made to feel like friends rather than customers and we are, afterall, in the beautiful Stellenbosch…
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In Our Element – Exploring the Wine Country
We left you at the end of the last post as we sat in our beautiful, remote cabin in the Tankwa Karoo National Park, soaking up the peace and quiet and making friends with the wildlife. That evening we watched a spectacular electrical storm raging on the horizon for hours, lighting up the whole sky.…
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Regaining our Balance on the Western Coast
We are now 2 weeks into our South African journey and the country is certainly not disappointing us. In fact, given my long-held view that South Africa is too like Europe rather than Africa-proper it is exceeding my expectations in a big way. The fact that this country is both beautiful, wild and remote and…
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A Return to What We Love – Cape Town
The veil has lifted, the world has become brilliant technicolour again – we are back in Africa! From the moment I looked out of the aeroplane window as dawn broke and saw the sands of the Namib desert beneath me, my heart lurched and my face broke into an involuntary, albeit exhausted smile. A sense…
The Sidetracked Sagas 