We were on the road again for the next part of our exciting South African world cup adventure. Every stage of our rainbow nation odyssey so far has been exciting for different reasons. There was no doubt, though, that the next episode would be one of the highlights of the trip,something that myself and Laura had been looking forward to for a long time. You see we were heading to Kruger National Park. Kruger is one the most famous national parks in the world, home...

We jumped in the car and Laura started driving out of the car park, with a few puzzled Lesothan faces around the place. We soon realised why there were puzzled faces and a few cheeky grins...we had a flat tyre......typical! To be perfectly honest, after our jaunt around the mountainous dirt, stone and gravel roads of Lesotho, a flat tyre was hardly unexpected. In fact, we would be lucky if that would be the only challenge encountered with our hire car before we w...

The next part of our South African adventure would actually take us out of South Africa into a country within South Africa- the Kingdom of Lesotho. Lesotho is known as the mountain kingdom and was only a short drive from Bloemfontein. As with a significant proportion of our trip we had not done any specific planning and booked accommodation the night before we planned to leave. The extremely helpful Coast to Coast book, which we picked up in Mossel Bay recommende...

The journey to Bloemfontein was eventful for all the wrong reasons. Laura fell ill the previous evening on account of eating something dodgy from one of the outlets at the Port Elizabeth fan fest and it was touch and go whether we would travel or hang around PE for another day or until Laura felt better. It wasn't essential that we travelled that day, although we had already booked the hire car. Laura decided that she was well enough to travel and we headed off o...

After seeing the beautiful sunrise over Plettenberg Bay from the roof top of Plett Backpackers, it was time to make our way out of town and head off to Port Elizabeth, with fuzzy heads from our drinking the night before.The drive took around three hours and we were joined on the motorway by lots of fellow England fans making their way to Port Elizabeth complete with flags and scarves hanging out the cars. The excitement was building! On arrival into Port Elizabet...