We had a HUGE breakfast. Fruit, muesli, yoghurt fruit juice and then porridge. I was feeling quite full when our hostess brought out bacon, 2 eggs, 2 kinds of sausage, baked beans and tomato. I was totally bloated after eating 1/2 of it! I cannot believe how much South Africans eat for breakfast. We started our journey at about 8:45 as we had a fair distance to go. We chose to drive a 90km dirt road which was more direct and saved us about 50km. At first it was a...

Our hostess served a delicious breakfast and then, prior to leaving, we had a long chat with Greg , the owner of our B&B about life in Canada versus life in South Africa. The reason they live in Graaff Reinet is because it is one of the safest towns in South Africa. He said one can go out at night and not be worried about safety. We showed him some photos of our house and he exclaimed "oh, no walls or wire fences!" Our trip to Bethulie was a long drive and af...

Well, I think I finally got the spelling right for this town! We got up early this morning and did the dawn game drive at 6am. We were very successful as we saw several elephants, Cape buffalo, warthogs, kudu, a tortoise, and the red hartebeest. After showering at our chalet and eating some breakfast, we started on the drive through the Karoo to Graaff Reinet. The Karoo was magnificent and got even better as we got to Graaff Reinet. We arrived around lunchtime an...

This morning, at breakfast, I met the owner of the B&B we were staying in. I was telling him the circumstances of why we visited Port Elizabeth. I told him how my dad had come to move to South Africa after WW2 and that he had spent time in India before being sent back to England. The owner replied that his dad had also been in the RAF and had also spent a year in India. His dad was in 426 Squadron Bomber Command while my dad was in 89 night fighter squadron. ...

Don't have too many pictures today as we drove the 250 km to Port Elizabeth with a 4 hour stopover at Storms River Village where we went on a zip line tour of the Tsitsikama Forest canopy. There were 10 zip lines and Jean and I were totally bagged at the end of it. I was amazed at how fragile the forest is. Some of the trees were 600 years old. There were 2 species of yellow wood. We did the zip lines with a family from Yorkshire and a couple from Germany. It was...