On The Road To Everywhere

mango face

lunch on the road

cutie passed out

Bloem guesthouse view

happy travelling

bum change in Ladismith

ferry accross the Breda River

with auntie Dom

pretty dress

with great uncle Robert

flying with Dad

L'Aguhlus - most southern point of Africa

with uncle Tim

with uncle Brett

with tannie Tania

with Granny & great uncle Mike

Okay, so the main purpose of this holiday was to go to Brett & Tania’s wedding at De Hoop Nature Reserve on the Cape Coast… So we figured, if we are driving that far, we might as well make it a road-trip. So here’s what we’ve done so far…

We left home in the afternoon on the 3 Feb and drove to Bloemfontein where we stayed in a lovely guesthouse. Poor Natalia got attacked by mozzies that night and her face was covered in bites, shame…

On the 4 Feb we traveled on down to Beufort West and stayed on a lovely guestfarm and olive farm, mmm yummy! Shoo, the Karoo desert is really dry and hot!!

The following day took us all the way down to De Hoop. You can imagine my surprise when we had to drive 50km+ on a dirt road to get there…all our stuff was covered in wonderful dust!! Here we got to see all Kim’s family from all over – and everyone got to meet our gorgeous Natalia!!! We got to spend 2 nights here….

The next day was the much awaited wedding. Natalia got to wear a dress that I bought her before she was born, lol. A fantastic day was had by all…and the happiness and wine flowed.

On the Sunday we packed once again and moved ourselves off to Pearly Beach +- 60km north of Hermanus. On the way there we saw where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet at L’Aghulus. We got to put our anchors down here for 3 nights, staying in a beach house overlooking the ocean.

Finally yesterday morning we left at sparrow fart 4am to make the long trek up the coast to PE. No accommodation was booked and we found ourselves driving up and down looking for a nice guesthouse, but they were all fully booked. The Courtyard Hotel apartments gave Kim and excellent deal and we have a nice room overlooking the sea!

So this morning takes us inland to a larny private game reserve, which will come in the next post…..

For now, we are chilling in our spacious room. Natalia is watching Baby Einstein as I type and Kim is taking a shower. Our road-trip has been fantastic so far, with more places to come…… But looks like 3 of the mozzie bites might be infected on my poor gorgeous girls face – not happy about that!!

Love P X 3 xxx

Places we have stayed:
Bloemfontein, Beufort West, De Hoop, Pearly Beach, PE

Places we have seen:
Oudtshoorn, Ladismith, Barrydale, L’Aghulus, Napier, Bredasdorp, Hermanus, Gans Bay, Mossel Bay, Wilderness, Knysna