Blogs from South Africa, Africa - page 569

We arrived at Jeffrey's Bay, or JBay as it's affectionately known, in the late afternoon. Our accommodation at Dreamland was a beachside studio flat with a gorgeous seaview, right on Supertubes. We had been lucky to get a room as we arrived in the middle of the Billabong Pro Surf Championships and our flat was situated right next to the stands and judges at Supertubes. We were only staying that evening and left the next morning, so we didn't catch that much of the action, mainly surfers practising on the early morning waves. The town was rammed with surf stores and is great for snapping up surf gear bargains. It would have been nice to have stayed longer and hopefully seen more of the competition. ... read more

hello, hope all is well. we arrived in sa on friday night....after a crazy 17hours of flying! insane! i dont think i have ever watched so many films! met up with georgi then headed off to our hostel. then a quiet night...i couldnt cope with much having been up 30+ hours! saturday we just chilled. attempted to make a plan...so we shopped...an i bought an sa phone! we got back...then impromtuly got picked up by drew and lu, and headed off to krugersdorp, to one of their friends 18ths! one crazy night, which ended watching the sun come up having breakfast at fontana! awesome awesome! sunday was largely spent recovering! we went (to watch not play) football and rugby, then had an amazing home cooked dinner at drews....so so grateful. i miss home cooked food so ... read more

Well, I returned from my weekend on safari with all limbs intact, and no lion bite-sized chunks taken out of me. It was really an amazing weekend, and I’m not sure that I can describe it all, but we’ll see how far I get. This is a story of the wilderness, of driving on the left-hand side of the road, and of the sunset drive from hell. There were twelve of us UF students that decided to go on the safari. We arrived in Joburg on Thursday afternoon, and split up into our respective cars. I was in a car with my friends Nicole, Josh and Katie (who is also my roommate), and we were pretty lucky since I remembered to bring my FM Transmitter for my Ipod. So we had some rockin tunes. It was ... read more

July 16, 2007 Cape Town “” Today at 7:40, I joined Ced on his Walk for Life constitutional. It was a 5k walk around Rondebosch, the suburb where he and Sandra live. It was a crisp morning, and I attracted lots of funny looks in my stylish teddybear pj pants! (I didn't have room for exercise clothes, OK!) It was a nice walk. I do enjoy walking outside versus on a track in a gym! Once we got home, I lazed about, checking e-mails and working on my blog. I had a late breakfast, and then suddenly it was 11:00, and Ced was rather cross that I had made no effort to get started on our day. So, we got going. We had afternoon tea scheduled with an old school friend of mine at 3:00--that didn't ... read more

Heffalump Haven It was another long drive from Coffee Bay, which we were glad to escape, to Addo. After driving through East London we got to King William's Town, where we missed a turn and drove 25km in the wrong direction. However, despite the main route to Addo being closed due to roadworks, we found an alternative route to our hostel the Orange Elephant. We arrived to find the cosy two-bedroom cottage was all to ourselves because another couple had cancelled their booking. We would highly recommend this hostel to anyone wishing to visit Addo because they have a great little bar and the staff are very friendly, helpful and informative. Rach was initially a bit scared of John, the manager, because he looks suspiciously like the blue clown face guy in House of 1000 Corpses, ... read more