As it is the surfers mecca you may be forgiven for thinking that we wanted to do some surfing. In fact we went to check out the cut price clothes and watch TV movies (not many places have TV).

The Garden Route is one of the main tourist attractions in South Africa; however you would be disappointed if you expected either gardens or tourists. In fact 'Garden Route refers to being fertile and is where most food is grown. Strangely I did not see much in the way of farms either. What the garden route has is lots of mountains, beaches and trees (the later attracts the hippies). The first place we went to was BuffaloBay; solitary backpackers built in the sa...

Agulhas AKA most Southernly point in Africa - or to put it another way sod all to do apart from looking at a sign where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. Liz wanted to go there and it seemed symbolic since we had spent 2 months getting there from the Equator. The other point being that the water temperature now goes from a toe numbing 10 - 15 degrees C to mid 20 degree C. Need to get further North it is a bit nippy at night and only in the low 20's during the ...

The place names here are tricky at the best of times. It is amazing how many people ask "where are you going" and it is almost impossible to pronounce it - so you end up just saying the Ostrich place or Cango Caves. But this is not always good enough. They say do you mean "blardy blar" - er yes! - or do you mean "blardy blar blar" - er yes! On the way to that place, we stopped off at the 'Sharon' fruit place. Let me explain - we met...

We were heading for shark and whale country, unfortunately the whales are not here but Great White Shark was on the viewing menu. On our lunch time menu was chick peas, red kidney beans, sweetcorn salad with some bread. We were parked over a white beach with blue mountains at one end. It would be nice to eat in on the beach - there was not a sole on it. The salad was sealed in two pupaware containers that Liz was carrying. You can probally tell that something is ...