Arrived at a hostel outside Oudtshoorn last night. We read that it was a little quirky and it certainly lived up to that expectation. The owner was German lady who moved to Africa 9 years ago and she was also a few sandwiches sort of a picnic. But it was clean and near where we wanted to be tomorrow so we stayed in a dorm room with mattresses on the floor and thankfully a fan. We spent the yesterday getting to this point by visiting about 4 wineries enroute a...

Today was solely for sampling this region's finest vintages and to say we were excited is an understatement. We booked an Easy Rider tour with our hostel and 10.30am set off in a mini bus with 3, as it turned out, boring Germans. They confirmed their status when they actually spat their wine at one vineyard! We visited four vineyards today: - Simonsig - Fairview - Dieu Donne - Tokara After Fairview we stopped in Franschhoek for lunch. By this point I...

This morning Rory and Shelley came to collect Laura and I for our 6 day adventure down the Garden Route. Unfortunately for Rory and Shelley, Laura and I were a little worse for wear having only gotten home from our night out at 5am and it was now only 9am...! Luckily for us we have booked to stay at the same hostel on our return next Saturday so we threw a few pieces of clothes in a small bag, literally threw the rest of our clothes into the hostels storage cup...

Spent the morning in Robben Island. Booked the first ferry across and a few of us from my tour got educated on how innocent people were imprisoned for non-crimes and how a prison can be so much harsher towards a political prisoner than a criminal prisoner. When we arrived on the island we got put on buses and had a guide who told us all about the island as we drove around. We were not allowed to hop out of the bus, however the information the guide was giving ...

Hired cars this morning and Claire and I drove a group of 8 to risk our lives with some Great Whites. Some were excited, some were terrified, I was pretty indifferent to the experience, but thought that I should do it considering I was here and it did have a certain level of appeal. 2 hours drive and we were at the bay where we were to meet the great beasts. We had a midday launch and so thankfully did not have to get up too early this morning. The dive site ...