Category: My blog
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Panama City – Day 1 Metropolitan Natural Park
One of the massive positives of our trip to South Africa was no jet lag. I had forgotten the joys of being wide awake at 4am despite managing to stay awake well past 10.30pm. Having said that, jet lag is getting easier to handle as these days my mind quite enjoys waking in the middle…
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Panama Prattlings
Why Panama? Why not? American expats seem to like it, along with quite a few others who enjoy it for its generous tax advantages. I’ve heard the money there is unusually clean too. In my mind, I see it as a more built up Costa Rica, all the same wildlife and geography with the added…
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Into Africa Final Thoughts
Our journey home was long but uneventful. The weather is freezing here but clear and frosty, perfect festive weather. We were dropped off by our cabbie at 6am. We had an interesting conversation with him on the way as he asked why didn’t British white people look after their parents the way his culture did?…
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Tegula Falls Gorge Hike – Northern Drakensberg
It wasn’t the best of starts. We strolled up to the dining room for breakfast at 8am when Mike our guide greeted us and told us our lunch packs were ready for our hike today. We thanked him and then continued our course towards breakfast at which point Mike seemed quite surprised and informed us…
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Northern Drakensberg -Rain stops play
It poured with rain last night, luckily these thatched roofs are very weatherproof. It felt cosy being safe inside while the elements went wild outside. A wet and miserable morning meant a change to the itinerary. We would no longer be visiting the camel’s hump but instead would be walking to Sungabala Camp. Sungabala Camp…
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Cathedral Peak to Northern Drakensberg
Yesterday saw us move on from Cathedral Peak to the northern area of the Drakensberg mountains – our final stop before returning home. We enjoyed our stay at the Cathedral Peak hotel, other than someone denting our car in the car park and not owning up to it. Annoying. Our journey took us back through…
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Cathedral Peak Hike
Neither of us slept well last night. I think the reality hit us that this hike was serious. 1600 metres of ascent, 300 metres of which would be a completely vertical climb using chains and ladders to get to the summit – why hadn’t we trained for it? And would Beefy Man pressure us to…
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Drakensberg – Cathedral Peak
Our travel day to Cathedral Peak was a long one , as travel days usually are. We were up early to get the flight to Durban and make our way through Capetown’s rush hour traffic. A two hour flight was followed by a four hour drive to Cathedral Peak. The drive for most of the…
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Return to Camps Bay
What a charming place Moontide is. Maureen the owner, is a South African national treasure. A lady of a certain age, she is always immaculately turned out, always interested in her guests and you just know that should there ever be a crisis, she’s your woman. Candy is her right hand lady. Candy is a…
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Wilderness- Map of Africa and beach walk
We had an interesting meal at The Girl’s on The Square restaurant last night – Wildebeest and springbok. I managed the wildebeest but couldn’t make it through the springbok. (Which S ate obviously.)I am now officially meated out and may become a vegan. It’s quite likely that S would divorce me if I did on…
Middle-aged flash packers 