Category Archives: South Africa

December 15, 2018
3:26 pm
by: Butty

Saturday 15th December

Left Kei at about 9am to go to East London airport, dropped off the car, flight on time and arrived Jo’burg airport at 1.30. Couldn’t check in until 4pm. Put our luggage in storage and went across the road (20 … Continue reading →

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December 15, 2018
3:20 pm
by: Butty

Friday14th December

Took a little drive around Kei, had a cuppa at Yellowwood , a very interesting campsite and coffee house. Walked the beach at Morgan’s Bay and had lunch on the Deck, part of the hotel. Last day with Jeff and … Continue reading →

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December 15, 2018
3:14 pm
by: Butty

Thursday 13th December

Took a trip via the ferry across the river and took the gravel road cross country through the spread out villages of the Transkei. Had lunch at Trennery’s a small hotel on the coast, very pleasant.  Went for a drink … Continue reading →

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December 15, 2018
3:13 pm
by: Butty

Wednesday 12th December

Chilled most of the morning, Irene and Cheryl shopped a little and I helped Jeff with a little gate problem. Jeff suggested we take the two canoes down to the river, the tide was coming in so we started at … Continue reading →

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December 15, 2018
3:10 pm
by: Butty

Tuesday 11th December

Left Hout Bay at 8am to Cape Town airport for  our flight to East London and on to Kei Mouth up the Wild Coast to visit Jeff & Cheryl. Another smallish 40 seater jet and this time we were charged … Continue reading →

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December 15, 2018
3:07 pm
by: Butty

Monday 10th December

Went into CT via our favourite shop Weylandts and drooled over some of the furniture etc. Bought a couple of packable  nick knacks.  Spent a few hours at the new Silo Musuem on six floors of the old grain silos … Continue reading →

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December 9, 2018
5:49 pm
by: Butty

Sunday 9th December

Woke to a beautiful view over Hout Bay. Today we met Dave and Renate. They came here for coffee then we took a trip to the weekend market at the end of the bay. We remembered more stalls last visit … Continue reading →

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December 8, 2018
3:43 pm
by: Butty

Friday 7th December

We left Monte Bello in Windhoek at 7.15am for the airport. Our flight to Cape Town was at 9.20am. The airports about 40km out of town, looking for a flat place for an airport!  We arrived in CT at 11.20 … Continue reading →

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November 15, 2018
7:49 am
by: Butty

Tuesday 13th & Wednesday 14 th

13th November Blog posts will be intermittent for a while as internet/WiFi not available in the middle of nowhere!!  Another longish day driving to reach the Kgalagadi National Park.  It is a long drive for most people as they probably live … Continue reading →

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November 12, 2018
7:33 pm
by: Butty

Monday 12th November

Monday November 12th Up crack of dawn for Jeff to take us to the Bushlore depot in Midrand After all the paperwork, checking of the inventory, filling up with diesel,  we were on our way from Jo’burg at 10.00 am.  … Continue reading →

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