After 2 years of enforced ‘downtime’ at home with only a 2 week break in Spain in September, it’s definitely time to get away again. So taking the plunge, after discounting the Caribbean and Dubai, we finally settled on an old favourite - South Africa! All the COVID palaver has been completed and we have been confirmed as ‘fit to fly’ tomorrow. We have completed the awful VeriFLY app required by BA - that’s time I’ll never get back - and just the...

Well, we made it back home OK! Our flight from CT to JNB should have been at 18.30. We know it is hopeless (traffic wise) to leave the journey to the airport (20 mins only) because the rush hour can see the motorway completely stop, especially if there is an accident. Consequently we left just before 15.30 and although the road was pretty busy and slow in places we still made it pretty easily. Dropped the car off, got a buggy ride to the terminal - well it was...

One of the the things I forgot to mention was that while we were on the boat we saw a lot of seals lounging around in the water and on the way back we saw about 30 dolphins in 3 groups. They even did some jumps for us and a couple swam under our boat. The other day there were no local commuter trains. These are not the most desirable form of transport but a lot of workers do rely on them. Turns out, the railway had not paid Eskom for their electricity! Eskom ar...

So it’s Saturday. Because all of the Constantia restaurants we wanted to go to are closed on Sunday we had to go a day early. This had the dual effect of doubling A’s birthday celebrations! We went to the Cellars Hohenort. It is a lovely old 5* hotel and we chose the Greenhouse restaurant. We were a little concerned on arrival as there seemed to be some ‘event’ in the garden. With some odd costumes and model animals around it looked like it might be a c...

So Andy decided that there was no way that he could go to the cricket and we tried to give the tickets to our hosts/friends. Heidi (pr.Haydee) said they were going out and insisted that she would deliver us to the stadium so, reluctantly, we agreed. What we/she should have realised was that the traffic would be appalling and she couldn’t get us to the ground. She dropped us off about a 5 minute walk away. That’s 5 minutes if you can walk - and Andy couldn’...