We drove our Citi Golf along a stunning coastal road, it was blue sky above, green sea and waves breaking on our left, sandy beaches, mountains covered in Green shrubs running up on our right, all the perfect seaside cliches came true as the mighty table mountain started to rise up from a dot in the distance to become the sun blocking behemoth it is. Once inside our final destination it was the customary two laps of lostness around the city's one way system, th...

Stellenbosch is beautiful university town that looks like Clifton village, all street side cafes, chai lattes and shops selling expensive souvenirs. We had come to explore the area and spend a second day on the CooperTrooper wine tour. After learning which wines we liked in Robertson, and what to look out for when you buy wine so you don't end up with a bottle of vinegar, we spent a fantastic day trying a lot and buying a little wine. Our giant odyssey of world ...

It was wine all round on the longest wine route in the world, Route 62. A jolly long road with more vineyards than you can shake a stick at. We can report back that South Africans do like growing wine and it tastes very good. If you have never been on a vineyard before and had a tour or a wine tasting experience then its well worth it. We toured around six stunningly beautiful vineyards in one day and spent some time at each with the owners while they proudly exp...

If you're an ostrich looking for work then you've come to the right place. Oudtshoorn, home of "those big weird birds" said Kat. The original Boers farmed then on a huge scale and they still do for meat and as tourist attractions. Giant billboards around the town advertise ostrich as lean mean healthy red meat. We tried to eat one giant ostrich egg in the morning but failed, one egg is the equivalent of 24 hen eggs, one big protein punch for breakfast, it bunged...

After TerraPi we traveled to Port Elizabeth for a couple of days, then went to the airport and collected something very exciting. A hire car! A VW Citi Golf. This beast of burden will be our magic carpet driving anywhere and everywhere we want, apart from the townships, before we have to hand it back at Cape Town airport and fly back to ye olde England just before Christmas. Car hire in SA is cheap, only eight pounds a day and petrol is only 45p a litre. Our fir...