The 7,5 kilometer Lower Guinea Fowl Trail stretches from the 3rd Avenue Dip to Settlers Park. Although there are several access points onto the trail, the official start is at a parking area right next to the low water bridge in the Dip.
Bridge Street Brewery is more than just a place where they brew award winning craft beer. They also serve the best food and have become a great place to get together with friends.
You know your language is bad when a Grammar Nazi corrects your graffiti grammar. I spotted this at the Beer Yard in Richmond Hill last week while on the Hop on Beer Route Tour.
Last week I joined Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism and Gecko Tours on the inaugural Port Elizabeth Hop on Beer Route Tour. The tour visits three micro breweries in the city and at each stop you get to taste 4 "beers" (beers in " " because there are 10 beers and two ciders) plus a meal at the last stop. I took my camera with so over the next week or two you'll learn more about these micro breweries and what they have…
Some people absolutely hate stop-goes at road works. I used to be one of those but recently have changed my whole outlook on them. I make a point of it to get out the car at each one to stretch my legs and to take in the surroundings. Even chat to the driver of the car in front or behind me. A week or two ago I drove up to Johannesburg for the Getaway Show and encountered road works on the way up…
The Floradale Nursery that used to be on William Moffet recently moved into their new bigger and better premises on Circular Drive. We stopped by for a look last weekend and wasn't disappointed. In addition to a bigger shop and expansive outside display area of plants, pots, ornaments and other garden accessories, the popular The Rose Garden coffee shop also has a new space with both inside and outside seating.Just for interest sake, Floradale is one of the oldest garden centres in South Africa…
The kiddies bike path in front of the Walmer Library is the perfect spot to teach your kids about the rules of the road. I think the best thing about it is the working traffic lights. Although the KidZ are now too big to go and ride bike there, I stopped there last weekend to check up on a Geocache I have in the area and decided to snap a pic. No kiddies riding around today though.
The Bloukrans River Pass must be one of the most beautiful passes in the Southern Cape and Garden Route areas. Unfortunately after the 2006 floods part of the road was damaged and rather than repairing it, the road was closed. Although officially closed it isn't blocked off and there is nothing stopping cars from driving down it so that is just what I did a couple of weeks ago returning to Port Elizabeth from The Crags. There are sections where…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEzBiubR6g&w=500&h=400]I was digging around for a video to post for this week's Video Friday and found this short about Port Elizabeth's beaches on Rooms for Africa dating back to 2010. It will be hard to disagree with anybody saying that we really have magnificent beaches here in PE.
As one drives through the 3rd Avenue Dip from Mangold Park side through towards Newton Park, there is a parking area to the right just after the bridge from where the Lower Guinea Fowl Trail starts. On the edge of this open space is a stone bench with plaque on it. The bench and plaque is a little "monument" to David Baillie Lovemore (1926 - 1994) who pioneered this crossing of the Baakens Valley in 1955. The road itself was built by…