Category: Into Africa -November/December 2022
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Plettenberg Bay -Tsitsikamma National Park
S and I had upset tummies this morning. Not sure why. We ate at Barringtons last night, an upmarket craft brewery and restaurant in Plett. We had the taster beers as drinks – maybe one of those wasn’t quite right. Also there has been lots of problems with water pressure while we’ve been here, sometimes…
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Plettenberg Bay- change of plans
I think I ate the third most salty meal of my life last night. The first was in a Chinese restaurant in Snowdonia about 40 years ago. The second was the revolting bacon ribs I made Steve eat when we were in Granada. This one was in the 1989 restaurant in Plett. A popular restaurant…
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Plettenberg Bay- Birds of Eden and Robberg Nature Reserve
Two very different places but both were enjoyable to visit. (Thanks Charlie for the heads up.) Birds of Eden is very close to Plettenberg Bay and is a huge netted aviary, (apparently the biggest in the world)containing a wide variety of birds. Normally these birds would be in different parts of the world from each…
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Hermanus/Plettenberg Bay
Sunday brought a near cloudless day , perfect for our second cliff path walk. This time we made it to the lagoon where we ate our sandwiches and watched enviously as people barbecued all manner of delicious foodstuffs on the public braais. No whale sightings though, they’ve moved on – we were very lucky to…
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Cape Agulhas
The Fear well and truly got me today. Details to follow. The early morning foghorn from next door has gone thank goodness, so we managed to sleep past 6.30am. Steve had plotted an alternative route to Cape Agulhas, taking us along some of the coast before arriving in Agulhas. Google said it would take 2…
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Hermanus – Cliff Path Walk and life generally
This morning I was subjected to having to listen to a very loud and boring man droning on to his wife/girlfriend/whatever on the balcony next to us. It wasn’t quite 8.30am and he had been holding court since 6.30am, possibly earlier. We are paying a high price for a beautiful sea view. Our accommodation doesn’t…
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Arrival In Hermanus
Up and ready early, we pottered along to the Huguenot museum just along the road from us. The Huguenots were originally from France but were persecuted for their religion and so many left France and came to South Africa. Franshhoek means “French Corner” and their influence lingers on, especially where the vineyards are concerned. The…
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Franshhoek- Mont Rochelle Nature Reserve
A walk was required today after all the indulgence of yesterday. After fending off Nandy’s pitiful cries to share our breakfast , (Nandy is the resident Jack Russell who is as wide as she is long; we have strict instructions not to feed her) we got ourselves organised for a walk in the local nature…
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Franshhoek wine tram
Time to leave Camps Bay and move on to Franshhoek, but we will be returning to CB when we fly to Durban in a week or so’s time. Franshhoek is a small town in the wine region of the Cape. Franshhoek means French Corner but it looks more Dutch than French. It is ridiculously picturesque…
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Walking Table Mountain
We nearly didn’t do it. We can see Table Mountain from our apartment and the clouds hanging around at the summit didn’t look promising. Also, we were both thick-headed from the previous night and the thought of dragging ourselves 650m up a very steep path didn’t appeal. Naturally we each pretended we were fine but…
Middle-aged flash packers 