South Africa
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Photo Gallery
Origins Museum, JoBurg Museum, and dinner at La Madeleine
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | Views [366]
11 th to 13 th
April 2011
Returning to Johannesburg and
Pretoria, South Africa
We’ve got to ‘fess up about our return from Zanzibar….the moral
of this story is to ALWAYS check that you actually collect the correct bags….... Read more >
Friday, 25 Feb 2011 | Views [1138]
Friday 25th February, 2011
Maun, Botswana
A week ago we drove through the border (after giving border
control the details of serial numbers for the laptop, ipod and camera so that
on our return we are not hit for duty – as ... Read more >
Monday, 14 Feb 2011 | Views [1314]
Sunday 13 th February
Getting ready for the overland trip
Well we’ve spent the last few days and definitely need the next
few days to get the Hi Lux organized as we intend to leave at the end
of the week to head through ... Read more >
Monday, 14 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Views [810]
Wednesday 9 th February
Day trip to the Drakensberg Mountains – a World Heritage Site
We made an expedition into the genteel Drakensberg Mountains – lots of
pastures, maize fields and villages on the way. The area is green ... Read more >
Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery
What a fabulous day, followed by some local hospitality
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Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Photo Gallery
A stay on a farm and day trips to local artists
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Saturday, 12 Feb 2011 | Views [806]
Tuesday 8th February, 2011
Hawkston Farm, Midlands (between Durban and Jo’burg)
We survived 3 dives at Sodwana - enjoying the warmer water, the
hard coral and the leisurely atmosphere at the Sodwana Bay Lodge…in fact we
stayed ... Read more >
Friday, 11 Feb 2011 | Views [999]
At Umkomaas we were in the care of dive masters Barry and Celia
Coleman of Meridian dive, who did an excellent job of organizing our
accommodation, our dives and our social life! They are great people, in fact
they could almost be mistaken for ... Read more >
Monday, 31 Jan 2011 | Views [455]
Monday 31 st January
2010
Umkomaas, south of Durban
After travelling from Pretoria last Friday through canefields,
maize and ramshackle villages with kids on their way home from school walking
by the roadside for endless ... Read more >
Monday, 24 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 24 Jan 2011 | Views [1349]
While the newly cleaned out pool fills chez Mark &
Margie’s, we took off to visit the colourful African Handcraft Markets – so
much innovation and creativity. Things
we saw included fabulous dancers, a fire eating limbo dancer, solar powered
toys, ... Read more >
Friday, 21 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery
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Thursday, 20 Jan 2011 | Views [452]
Well here we finally are! We're holed up, starting that downward spiral into retirement, about 20km from Pretoria - at our friends' Mark & Margie's hillside retreat. A bit about their home...the house is made up of about 8 split-levels and is ... Read more >
