Travel

2013.08.23 Packing up time already and leave our snug, comfortable home in Barrydale. There was some frost on the car but by the time we had finished our bacon and eggs it had gone. We returned the keys and drove the short and very scenic road to Montagu. First we checked out where the camping […]

2013.08.22 Looking for things to do in Barrydale I had found the Waterfall trail, I had even managed to find a waypoint for the start. As it was only two km from the Brock house we decided to rather walk there. It wasn’t quite straightforward and we had to ask a few of the locals

2013.08.21 We are off on our adventure, a mixed bag of camping, botanizing and visiting our son Nick. It will take us through mostly the south-western part of the Western Cape if that makes sense. We have decided that, apart from the first and last day, to only do relatively short distances between campsites so

Maandag tot Woensdag, 19 to 21 September 2011 Voor Ellie’s zestigste verjaardag besloten we om een paar dagen naar Graaff-Reinet te gaan en dan specifiek om het Cambeboo natuur reservaat te bezoeken. Het plekje ligt ongeveer 250km hier vandaan. Eerst ingeboekt op de gemeente camping, Urquart, en dan het plekje zelf een beetje verkennen. Ze

Weekend 20-21 August 2011 In the quest to find some flatter roads to cycle not too far from town I looked at the area around St Francis Bay. We did some training there before from Paradise Beach to Cape St Francis and I remembered the road to Oysterbay not being too hilly either. Armchair exploration

We thought it might be a good idea to do some mountainbiking this weekend so, like the good guys we are, we got a permit yesterday and loaded bikes into the car this morning and off we went, parked just on the other side of the Van Stadens river and chose to go up the

I spent quite a bit of time learning some of the quirks  of my new gps toy and I think I am getting there. With the latest version of MapSource and the map of Europe I am quite able to find my way around there. The issue of a limit of 250 points maximum to

Today was toy time and running around time, no work was done. We kinda felt guilty not having cycled for a while, could not believe it when I downloaded the track that it was a whole 7 days ago that we were last on the bike, so we should have done a short trip but

No pics today, just happy to report that some more jobs bit the dust today, kitchen door fixed, cornices trimmed and put back, cover for cellar fitted, got micro sd for gps and got it to talk to Mapsource and to top it all Mariana phoned to say that tenants check is ok and they

Well, safely back from two days geological sampling in the Steytlerville district in the company of these two mad characters. Don’t you feel sorry for me already? Angelique needs rock samples to study quartz intrusions into the rocks of the Cape fold belt mountains for her doctorate so we went on a collecting trip. Here