Blog Day 34 Thurs 9th June 2011 First of a huge Happy Birthday to Trish’s Mum & Dad, hope you both have a wonderful day & don’t work too hard though where you are that’s nion impossible. We miss you loads & love you lots. So today we had the day in Durban, now we’ve heard so many horror stories about here being an unsafe place, you can’t walk around safely & you have to be on the ball all the time, that we decided to spend less time he...

Blog Day 30 Sun 5th June 2011This morning we are heading off towards Coffee Bay. We are on the bus for about 4 hours & then find out that we have another 2 hour journey in a very cramped shuttle bus along roads that are ridiculously bumpy even more so than previous places we have been to so far. We arrive at the Coffee Shack & receive a free welcome beer, let's just say that the evening went downhill from here. One free beer turned into a night of heavy d...

Blog Day 28 Fri 3rd June 2011 Today we are up very early to leave Port Elizabeth & head onto Chintsa which is along the Wild Coast. We arrive at Buccaneers Backpackers early afternoon after an extremely bumpy ride & the place is stunning, we now know why this is called the Wild Coast. We chill out for a bit & then get a knock on the door asking if we would like to go on a free Sundowner trip to the beach to watch the sunset, its free & there’s...

Blog Day 27 Thurs 2nd June 2011 We arrived in PE late last night and our room is great. However there is so much wood in it! The floor, the walls, and the ceiling are all pine cladded! Dan spent about an hour checking out all the joints etc. before going to bed. This morning we decide to go for a walk along the sea front to The Boardwalk. This is another place that brings back memories for Dan as it was where he came with the rugby boys back in 2002. We find a ...

Blog Day 25 Tues 31st May 2011 So as it turns out the view from our room is stunning! We can see right up and down the beach and the waves are pretty spectacular! Jefferys bay is a town that is pretty much dominated by surfing! Everywhere you look in the town there is a billabong shop, a quicksilver shop, a reef shop and so many more. We take a wander into town to see what’s happening. Everywhere along the Garden Route has been pretty dead, as it’s out of se...