Port Elizabeth is experiencing its wettest non-flood year on record (the second wettest of all time only after the 1968 floods) and we've still got another two months to go till the end of the year. Looking at all the flooding we've had they can just as well declare this year a flood year as well, but that's not my call. With the huge rains we had a week or so ago even the docile Shark River that flows through Happy Valley came…
Die Witpoortjiewaterval is die fokuspunt van die Walter Sisulu- Botaniese Tuin in Johannesburg. Die tuin is 'n baie gewilde piekniekplek en besoekers hou gewoonlik hulle oë baie wyd oop om te sien of hulle dalk die broeipaar Verreaux arende wat langs die waterval nesmaak kan gewaar.
Daisies in the gardens on the Tsitsikamma Village Inn's village green
We attended the christening of the baby of friends of ours at the St Mark's Chapel in Framesby North this morning. St Marks Congregational Church is quite a big and popular church with christenings taking place in the chapel after the end of the church services and not in the church during the services.
Walking along the Wildside coastline on the Roseatte Tern Trail through Cape Recife
If somebody had to ask me right now what my absolute favorite hotels are the first one on my list would be the three star Tsitsikamma Village Inn in Storms River Village. "Why?" I hear you ask. I absolutely love the hotel not just for one specific reason but because of the sum of a number of reasons. The hotel is situated in the heart of the beautiful Tsitsikamma, its a stone's throw from the indigenous Tsitsikamma forest with the stunning…
*Not for sensitive viewers*Believe it or not, but sheep heads, known as smileys, is a township delicacy. The heads are thrown in the fire where all the hair are burned off. The "cook" then uses white hot irons and blades that are pushed into the fire to burn and cut off the remaining hair and unwanted parts. There after the heads get split open with an axe, all the unwanted inside bits cleaned and then get cooked. The reason for the name…
We took the Kidz and the Worse (our dachshunds) for a walk on the first section of the Sacramento Trail a couple of weekends ago. This little gully is just past the Sacramento monument just as you pass into the nature reserve.
Die Donkin Reservaat in Port Elizabeth het 'n mengsel van beide oud en modern. Die oud is die Donkin gedenkteken in die vorm van 'n piramide (1820) en die Donkin Vuurtoring (1861) terwyl die moderne aspek die nuwe kuns is wat deel vorm van Roete 67.
Lake de la Vie next to the lake at Lake Farm (hence the name) is one of Port Elizabeth's premier wedding and function venues. The place is truly stunning and what makes it even better is the fact that its located on the exclusive 1000 hectares Royalston Private Wildlife Reserve and Residential Estate. Truly a stunning place for a romantic wedding.