We arrived at 6.30am local time which was 4.30 gmt. The formalities went very quickly and smoothly and we were met by Aaron and Lynor and soon out in the warm and sunny day - even at that time of the morning. It was Lynor’s 30th birthday party tonight so we were plunged right into preparations. It was a great opportunity for us to meet up with lots of friends and family all at once. The party kicked off with the rugby, South Africa were playing England. The English supporters Wendy, Barrie and Rory were of course horribly outnumbered by the [View Full Entry]

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The big day arrives, thankfully not raining but it had turned cold with an icy wind and from the weather forecast it would appear we are escaping just before the cold weather hits. Taxi to the station and then we buy our tickets. No wonder the trains are struggling, I can probably fly to Spain for less than it costs for a single ticket to London. We now have to start to manoeuvre our four wheelie bags through the transport system. It starts with the new gates that have been installed at the station. There was a large one for disabled [View Full Entry]

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Well we had so much fun last year travelling round South Africa for 3 months that we are off again this year. Now that Kerry has emigrated to Australia, we will be splitting our time between the two countries. We will be in South Africa for the first 4 weeks and then on to Australia in time for Christmas for the next 4 weeks. On our way home we had to travel via another country and it just happened that Los Angeles was the cheapest. So we said what the heck and have taken another 4 days to visit Las Vegas [View Full Entry]

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Back in Johannesburg now, cleaning out the trailer and camping equipment to leave behind. We had an evening at Montecasino, supper first at the Ocean Basket which has fabulous seafood, a few of us had oysters for tasters first and then it was seafood platters, calamari and prawns, absolutely delicious. Then into the casino for a little bit of gambling, we all had a go at some of the machines, Andy tried the cards but no-one won anything so we called it a day. [View Full Entry]

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The snorkelling from the beach was absolutely amazing, we had already checked the tides and the spring tide was just as we arrived which meant that the tides were very low and the timing was just right, in the middle of the day. There are some very sheltered inlets where you can snorkel most of the time and a great pool where the variety and numbers of fish was fantastic. We saw lots of moray eels, some of them too close for comfort, we saw leopard rays, an incredible variety of coloured fish, most of which we cannot name, we saw [View Full Entry]

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Decided to head down to the beach for a while so were stopping at Lower Sabie on our way out of Kruger. Decided to stay in the huts so that we can make an early morning getaway. Had a braai and were all packed and organised for leaving early, so an early night was in order. At 1am Andy needed the loo and as the huts only have a sink and no bathroom he was going to have to go for a walk, I also woke and considered whether I could wait until morning, at that point he turned the key [View Full Entry]

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Having such a good time in Kruger we decided to extend it. There was no accommodation in the southern part of the park so we booked camp sites at Satara a bit further north, another lovely site. We drove up and set up camp, Jane and Malcolm in the tent and we were going to sleep in the cab again. The camp site at Satara is right on the fence which is great, of course we saw the hyena, we also saw lots of fireflies and heard lion most of the night - fabulous. We took an early morning drive to [View Full Entry]

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The bride and groom had left for their honeymoon, some of the guests had gone to Cape Town, some had gone home and that just left the UK contingent who were flying back that afternoon. We had decided to all go for breakfast before we went our separate ways so all packed up and made for the local shopping centre for a cooked breakfast - I think not! Good old power sharing, no electricity for the entire centre meant that all the restaurants - the pizza, seafood and burger ones could not operate. The spar shop had some cooked food on [View Full Entry]

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We had arranged for any of the wedding guests that were staying a bit longer to come into Kruger for the day, we were going in convoy. We left the chalets at 5am to get in Malelane Gate pretty much as soon as they opened. We took a leisurely drive to Crocodile Bridge where we all had breakfast seeing some game along the way although nothing very exciting. Our next leg took us up to Lower Sabie in time for a late lunch before making our way across to the Paul Kruger gate as time had just run away with us. [View Full Entry]

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At last we get to the wedding, we've been building up to this for over a year and now we get to see whether all the planning works out. The day started when Dave picked me up and took Julie and I to join Kerry and the other bridesmaids at K'shani for breakfast, Dave was incredibly stressed out and hadn't slept the previous night, he also made sure that his best man Andrew didn't sleep either, after all, what are best men for if not to keep you company when you can't sleep. We used one of the chalets for all [View Full Entry]

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