The Garden Route and the Wild Coast were absolutely amazing. We wish we had made more time for this area. Cath and I got around on the Baz Bus which was a hop on hop off service between backpackers - very convenient! First stop - Oudtshoorn. This town is in the ostrich farm region. Very strange seeing wobbles of ostriches in paddocks rather than cows! We visited the Cango Caves and did the 'adventure' tour. It got very tight at times trying to crawl through tiny...

What a beautiful city!! 10 days in Cape Town was great - we had time to chill out, relax, wash everything that we owned and explore the city! Liz (a family friend of the Larcombes) played the very hospitable host lending us her car and playing guide. We hit the waterfront, went to Robben Island and Nelson Mandela's cell at the maximum security prison, lost our money at the Grand West Casino, spent a day out in the Franschoek wineries, explored Cape Point and the ...

Well, it's been a while... We arrived in Cape Town about 5 days ago and have been staying with a family friend of Penny's which is soooo nice. We've scrubbed and cleaned and finally smell like like roses again after managing to remove the months worth of grime that we'd accumulated! Cape Town's beautiful and I'm slowly getting used to locking the car door and driving around with the windows up so we don't get mugged at the robots (yes, ROBOTS! That's what these ...