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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…
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Wilderness- fun with keys/Kingfisher trail
Last night, we went to the Blue Olive for dinner. Candy, who is the manager here, told us it’s safe to walk in and out of Wilderness town from Moon Tide so we set off, only to find that none of the keys we were given fitted into the main gate lock. This gave us…
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Moving on to Wilderness
We had a lovely final meal in Plett last night at a place called Sol Kitchen. Should have gone there before – excellent food and a really good atmosphere, just 10 minutes walk away. We had to be up and out of our accommodation by 10am which was also complicated by load shedding but we…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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