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Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban May 20th 2006

Easter weekend which was the weekend before we were coming back to Pretoria to go to Mozambique, was the craziest weekend of my life...i kd you not! We were camping with Andrew, Dierdre and their family and about 5 other families and their kids. It all began when some of h kids decided it would be a good idea to pull out tent down when Kelly and i were stil in it. this started a war! Anyway soon after that Dierdre got a call from Sharon saying that she'd flipped her truck and could we come now! Sharon was on her way to fetch some horses for our outride on the Monday and was going rounds a coirner too fast and flipped her momma-honker (kelly's word!!) of a truck. Fortunatly she wasn't hurt but it was ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban May 19th 2006

Well this is a very delayed blog cos i haven't had internet access in a month! When we got back from teaching English at Mariazell we met up with a lady called Liz who runs an orphanage called Crossroads. We arranged to help out at Crossroads for the next week. Liz gave us 3 babies that really just needed some 1 on 1 attention - their names were Boy-boy, Supileule and Lutando. Boy-boy is 3 yrs old and had only come to the orphanage about a month ago. He has been severly abused, neglected and mal-nourished so he actually looked like a 1yr old. Kelly spent most of the time with him. the 1st day we went to the orphange he wouldn't even look at us but Kelly loved and played with him and by the ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban April 20th 2006

After a six hour drive from Jburg... We arrived in Ballito, known as the Dolphin Coast! Well I was pretty much breathless on arrival, looking at a very fine surf spot. Balitto has a magnificently paved walkway that stretches right along the beach, great for a early morning run (although I did that all of twice - but it makes you feel like a million bucks!). We were staying right on the beachfront in a wicked beachhouse, with all the trimmings. Early morning to lunch was spent on the beach (sun was blindly hot at 8:30am) and afternoons usually spent exploring the surrounding sites. There was a very cool beach pub called - hops about 5 minutes walk from the beachhouse... talk about ideal. The highlights of the ballito holiday were: * Visiting all the surrounding ... read more
View to right of the beachhouse
Blues vs Sharks
The durban stadium

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban April 18th 2006

Great to be back in the big smoke after almost two weeks in the wild Wild Coast! I dont know what was our top priority, a long hot shower, a good coffee, a proper toilet to sit on or any of the handful of luxuries that you never think about 'til you don't have them. In the end washing our stinky clothes before they deserted us for other, cleaner travellers won out. And although we almost had to make them ourselves we found a small cafe with good coffee. Formalities out of the way we spent the next three days exploring every nook and cranny of what we soon discovered to be a very big, busy, vibrant and electric city. Like our beloved Sydney, Durban is a very multicultural city and boasts the largest Indian population ... read more
Spice Market
Africa Market
Mama Jugs

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban April 3rd 2006

As the crucial Superbru Round 9 approaches and with the Tri-Nations on the horizon, elite members of the Beertjie Brigade (BB) are preparing for team extraction to South east Asia on a secret mission. Mission status: Team Ready Extraction Date: Thursday 13 April at 1300 hours. Team Members: Chewy, Beertjie, Nicns. Accompanying this elite team is specialist operations assessor George "Crocodile" Morfou. The BB is hoping George's Turkish decent will come in handy while scouting frontier islands of Muslim Malaysia. Our Mission: To find the Springbok's next flyhalf...and to recover from early round pressures of the Superbru challenge. We will start in Southern China and head East to Bangkok and down to Kuala Limpur. We expect a tough journey made more difficult by Beertjie's phobia for harmless insects, George's infatuation with oriental ... read more
Beertjie
Chewy
Crocodile George

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban March 28th 2006

We travelled about 2 hrs in the truck to go and teach at this Catholic mission station called Mariazell High School. We didn't know what to expect, what we'd be teaching or how long we'd be there for - you kinda have to go with the flow in Africa - I am learning! When we arrived we had a tour of the place (it's up in the mountains - with breathtaking views and awesome sunsets ans sunrises - which i saw out of my bedroom window each morning!) and met the lady who we'd be staying with who taught at the school. She was called Beryce and guess where she was from - Colchester! how bizarre! However, she insisted she was from New Zealand cos she had lived there for 4 years before coming to SA. ... read more
teaching
the jordan river
the waterall

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban March 25th 2006

ADVANCE WARNING- THERE ARE NO PHOTOS ON THIS UPDATE AS THE DISC WOULDN'T WORK IN THE COMPUTER I AM USING. SORRY. NOW READ ON (IF YOU CAN BE BOTHERED)... We are no longer in Australia. The observant amongst you (or those who know our itinerary) will see that this update is brought to you from the southern part of the African continent. Yes, we are now in South Africa, over half way in to our journey from Cape Town to Joburgand about three weeks away from flying back to London. But let's not dwell on such maudlin thoughts. We made it to Monkey Mia. And we saw plenty of dolphins. The set up there is a bit of a circus, but still, seeing the dolphins in such close proximity was worth it. Mia also had the ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban March 23rd 2006

Met these people called Matt and Kristy who run a youth camp where kids of all ages can come. so Kelly and i decided to help out for a few days. We had such a laugh. It's on this farm about 1hr from where we're staying so this guy that we met, Dave, lent us his dirty as truck and we trundled down dirt roads to get to this camp. We helped with cooking most of the time but we also went hiking (hard core!!) up to Die Kroon (which is the main mountain) and also got to canoe and cat walk (this is where a log is tied to 2 trees high up that you walk across and then absiele down) this was a little scary but heaps of fun. the kids on the camp ... read more
horseriding
after the 40k horseride
taking the hill..yeeeha

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban March 22nd 2006

Well about a week ago we flew to Durban way over on the other side of SA on the east coast where we drove about 3 hrs inland to Johans's bro's farm, this was like 10hrs travelling in 1 day so we were pretty tired. this place is in great contrast to where we were on the west coast, green, hilly, misty with dirt roads and no houses for miles around. Andrew and Dierdre were going on holiday for 5 days so Kelly and i were staying in their thatched guest cottage (so quaint) whilst they were away. Everyday we were like this is so bizarre we're in the middle of nowhere on a farm where the people who live here aren't even here...it was just a funny few days where we were like 'doodeedo' what ... read more

Africa » South Africa » KwaZulu-Natal » Durban March 20th 2006

LOST: 1 pair of sunnies, 1 bikini (well more left behind but its a good start) OK since i left you? what have I been up to... I am now a fully certified PADI open water Scuba Diver, yay how exciting! After leaving J'bay and all its lovely surfers umm.... I headed to Port St John which is this stunning little place with a lagoon and jungle behind the beach. Beautiful. Got a wicked reaction when I arrived, "A Reading shirt in the Transkei?" (Tanskei is like the middle of nowhere for those who don't know.) fella couldn't get his head around it. Just spreading the R'z vibe. Just moched on the beach and chilled out in prepration for the Warner Beach experience ;-) Warner is were I did my Scuba and had the most rocking ... read more




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