Breakfast at 7am! The deal is we all have to take our tents down and pack everything away before breakfast, bear this in mind when we have some really early starts on the trip! Anyway Vincent prepared some amazing fresh pancakes for breakfast. There is also always a supply of cereals and bread with various jams, etc. As soon as we were ready we were on the road once again heading for the Namibian border. The area is vast and desolate with very little veget...

Today's the day we say goodbye to my family after 10 weeks and move on to the next stage in our journey! We had to be at the Nomad Adventure office in central Cape Town for 8am and this meant getting up early to avoid the rush hour traffic. We left the farm at 6am but we were lucky, the early morning traffic was only just getting going and we managed to avoid most of it and arrived an hour early, time to drop off our bags and go for a Wimpy breakfast! Anthon...

Kromrivier literally means Crooked River in Afrikaans and is a very special hiking area Michelle was keen to take us to before leaving South Africa. It involves walking up a kloof (literally translates as "gap" but is actually a sort of valley) in the Cederberg Mountain Range behind Paarl. For the most part the mountains themselves look pretty samey. Don't get me wrong, they are certainly imposing and impressive and when the sunlight reflects off the rock at...

Finally the Met day has arrived, yet another one of those days that everyone has not stopped talking about since we stepped off the plane in late November… The J&B Met is South Africa's biggest and best known race day and it's held at the Kenilworth Racecourse in Cape Town. The same racecourse we've been visiting almost every week since we arrived! I for one am extra excited about the day because Ant's has got a ticket and is flying down from PE meanin...

The week of the Cape Yearling Sales arrived after nearly 10 weeks of hearing about it. It had particular significance for Annabel and my Dad because they were due to be selling their best ever yearling and were hoping for 1,000,000 Rand for him! Each horse presented at the sales (all one year olds as indicated by the title) had to be vetted and inspected for conformation, etc. That meant that from Sorrento Stud there was unfortunately only 1 horse taking par...