This is an amazing landscape. We are starting to see more wildlife in the desert and have spotted quite a few ostrich and different types of antelope including eland and springbok. There are a few private game reserves along the long straight road where they have some of the bigger Continue Reading
Southern Namibia
Greetings couch travellers and blog followers! We have been travelling north since we last chatted, stopping at the town of Springbok where I assume their rugby team all come from, then through the SA-Namibia border at Noordoewer, which took about an hour and a half which i understand is pretty Continue Reading
On the road to Namibia
Got back to Cape Town after our Franschhoek weekend and went to the V&A Waterfront for a couple of pints of Guinness at the traditional African-Irish bar as you do, before heading to the hotel and get organised for our 20 day overland road trip up through Namibia, into Botswana Continue Reading
Franschhoek
A quick post – on Saturday and Sunday we headed East from Cape Town in a nice Toyota hybrid hire car, stopping at Babylonstoren and Boschendal Estate before driving into Stellenbosch then onto Franschhoek -(or French Corner in Dutch) in the beautiful Franschhoek valley, famous for its wineries. We purchased Continue Reading
Table Mountain to Cape of Good Hope
Friday (yes I am playing catch-up here..) Day trip today. Instead of picking up the hire car today as planned we booked ourselves a tour. Table Mountain via Cable Car was the first stop – incredible views and very cold at the top. Fortunate with a clear day although a Continue Reading
The Blue Train (Part 2) to Cape Town
We finally made it to Cape Town. Due to the removal of copper rail lines the Blue Train was delayed multiple times and we ended up arriving in Cape Town a full 24 hours behind schedule… I have been reminded that being a control freak with a meticulously planned itinerary Continue Reading
The Blue Train (Part 1)
We made it to South Africa! We are on the move again now and possibly 200km down the track. Will provide an update on our train trip soon! Thanks for reading – leave a comment or a hello!
That was unexpected…
So our day didn’t pan out the way we had hoped. The plane crashed into the aerobridge or vice versa. Regardless the plane wasn’t going anywhere… So after Qantas worked out wtf to do, we were booked into the Pullman Airport Hotel and given directions to a shuttle bus to Continue Reading
Time for take off
Smooth transfer and boarding – settled in with the obligatory champagne – ready for takeoff when it was announced that an engineering issue had emerged that may cause significant delay. Apparently the air bridge hit the plane when moving and engineers are now assessing the damage while Qantas staff in Continue Reading
All packed…
Ready for a 4am pick up for 6am flight to Sydney then onto Johannesburg on a 9.30 Qantas flight. Each of our big bags weigh less than 15kg which is good given they don’t have wheels for us to drag them around. Hopefully we have packed enough warm clothes. The Continue Reading