On our flight back to Vancouver, we had a long layover in London and decided to take the train from Heathrow and stretch our legs by having a walk around central London. It was a beautiful crisp fall morning and we walked along the north embankment starting near Charing Cross along the Thames and then […]
From Meerendal we drove north-west along the coast, with a detour to Darling to visit a local microbrewery (Darling Brew). This region in general is renowned for its springtime wildflower blooms when the ground is covered with a carpet of colour. We were unfortunately a few weeks late to see the peak bloom, but there […]
The next leg of our journey took us from Plettenburg Bay down the coast to Knysna where we stopped briefly to look at “The Heads” – a narrow headland that provides access to the Knysna estuary – lots of development (too much) everywhere. From Knysna we headed down to George on the coast and then […]
We just spend a lovely two full days in East London with Russel and Linda, and explored the stunningly beautiful coastline from Morgans Bay to the north of East London, down to Port Alfred in the south. I remember very little of East London despite visiting my grandparents in Gonubie several times when I was […]
This post is a bit out of sequence with the previous 3 – it should have been posted when we first arrived in Africa. We spent two nights in Johannesburg and met a good friend of Laura’s – Mary Alice – who was kind enough to show us around there Walter Sisulu Gardens in Johannesburg […]