My childhood memories of Luderitz are of gale force winds and a camping site on a rocky outcrop overlooking the sea. On arrival to this tumbleweed town, on a sleepy Saturday afternoon I can remember my parents taking one look at the campsite after almost losing the car door when they jumped out to inspect, … More Paid in diamonds!
Since leaving CT we have both silently been wondering what and when would be the first major incident with MrO, after all he is a 20 year old Land Rover that needs constant love, attention and encouragement. Basically from day 2 we had a new rattle, this has since turned out to be the exhaust … More Oh dear what can the matter be MrO?
From the Richtersveld we travelled to the Fish River Canyon, the second largest canyon to that large American one people often talk about. This is where we learnt another of our valuable African lessons. When the road sign says 45km or even 10kms to your destination that doesn’t mean it’s accurate! A bit like road … More Fish River Canyon
Having spent many hours driving to the Orange river (border between Namibia and South Africa) when I was river guiding I was keen to find out what was on the coastal area of this region. We spent the first weekend out of Cape Town in Tietiesbaai, as we drove towards the ocean looking for a … More West Coast – South Africa
While we might have been in Cape Town for the past 10 days and we have had an abundant amount of free wi-fi – I can quite honestly say the time and days have just disappeared. Therefore I do acknowledge that by now this should have probably been our 3rd post while in CT but … More 3 for the price of 1
Quite simply he came already named by virtue of the number plate ending in MRO 🙂
What do you get when you put together 2 highly organised people, 1 trip to Africa, a trusty land rover? … a loose itinerary and huge amount of spares! Well this is our first blog post – finally – it’s taken a lot longer than I thought to start writing about our trip but here … More Preparation … or is it?
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