New Year in Marloth Park

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We moved on to Marloth Park, a beautiful small town set in a game park. None of the houses are allowed to put fences around them and no domestic pets are allowed as there is a lot of game that roams free. It is supposed to have what they call 'friendly game' such as giraffe, buck, zebra, warthog etc but it is also said there are lions there as well, and leopard occur naturally in that area. It does mean that when pegging out the washing around the back you are very watchful!

We had rented a couple of houses to stay in, the first was a lovely 4 bedroomed place and we were visited by lots of kudu and warthog. Fortunately the house had a large raised deck so we could sit out at night and not worry about being eaten.

On New Year's eve we were joined by Sue and Steve from UK and some more South African friends so ended up being 11 altogether. We cooked a couple of chickens on a spit over the fire before going to the local pub - the Watering Hole - for New Year celebrations. The pub wasn't exactly pulling out all the stops, they didn't even have a count down or Auld Lang Syne, but that didn't stop us having our own. We then went back to the house and carried until 2am to celebrate UK New Year as well.

The following day we went back to the Watering Hole and when we tried to order some drinks and lunch the waitress said 'I'm too tired' and walked off! Needless to say we found another pub.

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Photos

Marloth Park House
Complete with pool

Supper
Chickens on the spit over the fire

Waiting for 2am UK New Year
1.30 in the morning and we needed to cool off in the pool, not boasting or anything!