Our road trip has begun, Cape Town to Johannesburg in a rather new and rusty orange coloured Tata. Our first journey from Cape Town to Mossel Bay was a baptism of fire! A trip out to Robben Island delayed our collection of the car, meaning we weren't on our way until rush hour. After battling the traffic the sun began to go down as we tackled our first mountain pass. Apparently stunning views, I wouldn't know as I was concentrating hard to keep the car on the roa...

I am now officially rather old and can no longer boast to be in my 20's so here's to my 30's. Yesterday was a fabulous way to spend a birthday. We were up early for a surprise trip to The Vineyard Hotel in Claremont for a wonderful breakfast and a walk in the gardens. James then left me being pampered in the Spa. Back in the centre of town we moved to the Penthouse airstream trailer park and to accommodation for the night in 'Dorothy' and entirely polka dotted ...

The last few days have been spent walking the length and breadth of Cape Town and discovering the 'Long Street' where we are based is indeed a particularly long street. Table Mountain has been covered in an undulating cloth of cloud for much of our time here but we were lucky enough to find a clear day in which to attempt the trek up to the top. We are finding ourselves increasingly unfit and the walk was a little taxing, however the views from the top were simpl...

Our public transport endeavours are well and truely doomed. After sharing a delightful car journey back to Windhoek with Claire and Johnny we were slightly depressed at the thought of another long distance bus journey. We were however relatively buoyed at the prospect of the sleepliner bus the epitome of bus travel to date complete with leg room, leg supports and reclining seats - what else could we wish for, other than a magic carpet of course. I began to have...

The dunes are incredible, everything we had hoped for and were sampled in style on a quad biking tour. The two of us set out with our guide and were soon testing our nerves over sandy little hills. Soon we were hurtling along, faced with wall upon wall of huge sand dunesand my brain was telling me there was no way we were going to get over these things. Fingers and toes crossed with my thumb firmly on the accelerator there was nothing to do but go for it and just...