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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…
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Drive to Cape of Good Hope and back
A friend recommended driving along the Cape Peninsula so that is what we did. The coastal road heading towards The Cape of Good Hope is stunning. You have to pay a toll when you get to a place called Chapman’s Peak and from there you drive through Hout’s Bay and a few other little seaside…
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Capetown
The botanical gardens came highly recommended, so we decided to make this our first Capetown stop along with a visit to the V&A Waterfront. We also needed to grab a few food supplies too. A 15 minute drive from Camps Bay took us to the botanical gardens car park. So far, I’m very impressed with…
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Arrival in Camps Bay
Camps Bay is a suburb of Capetown, just 15 minutes drive from downtown. It was a toss-up between staying in Camps Bay and the V and A waterfront. We preferred the accommodation in CB so here we are. At first, we thought we’d made a mistake staying here because there was a mix-up with our…
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Into Africa
I have never wanted to go to South Africa. Anything I have ever read or seen about It portrays the country as one giant basket case, full of horrible crimes, corrupt governments and inequality. However S has been very keen to go and everyone I have spoken to (apart from people who have actually lived…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
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- 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
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- 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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