I know it's not Port Elizabeth, but I just have to share this with you. I was in Patensie for a tourism workshop this morning and the citrus orchards are just packed with fruit at the moment. The Gamtoos Valley is one of the biggest citrus producing areas in South Africa and it's well worth taking a drive through the valley at the moment to see all the citrus on the trees and the activity going on around the farms.
Joff's latest piece of graffiti down in the lower Baakens Valley literally has the whole city talking. It even made television news the other day. Last week I posted this picture on Instagram and a number of people have shared it via Facebook. I really hope we'll start to see a lot more of this kind of art around like they have done up on Johannesburg. It really encourages urban tourism and get people into areas they don't normally go…
"How about a weekend in Umhlanga with the Damselfly?" So the email I received from the InterContinental Hotels Group didn't quite say that, but it could just as well have. A weekend at any of their South African hotels and I got to choose which one. I could have chosen the luxury Intercontinental Johannesburg Sandton Towers or any of their other hotels in Jozi, Cape Town and Pretoria, but we decided on the Holiday Inn Express in Umhlanga. Firstly because of the…
A climb up the side of the Lower Baakens Valley to find a Geocache last week gave me a bird's eye view (or was it a Geocacher's eye view) of the Lower Baakens Valley below me. The is the view looking west with the Bridge Street building (where Bridge Street Brewery and Boomtown is located) right in the middle of the picture. Upper Valley Road toWalmer leads off to the left and the road up the hill in the middle…
Yesterday (Saturday) morning we took the sausages for a walk on the beach along with probably a hundred or so other pooches as part of a fundraiser for Animal Welfare. The weather was perfect and the dogs and their human servants had a great time out. So interesting watching everybody with the dogs of different shapes and sizes.
Friday morning I made an early morning stop in the lower Baakens Valley before work to find a newly published Geocache. Turned out the cache was high up the side of the valley which didn't just leave me out of breath when I got up there, but also with a great view down towards the harbour.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBMuJ49YFxs&w=500&h=400]Oh how I would love to have a drone and to be able to shoot Port Elizabeth and the Eastern Cape from the air. Unfortunately for me I have other financial priorities and just don't have the budget to buy one. Maybe one day when I'm big. One day. In the meantime I'll just have to enjoy the fantastic aerial footage others like Ralph of Chasing the Rainbow shoots. Check out this breathtaking video they did featuring some of Port Elizabeth's…
So this morning I was woken up by my neighbour's contractor starting early on this public holiday, spent a little time in bed with the wife and the daxies, played some Play Station with the KidZ and then we cleaned house, cleansed house and... yes, cleaned house. Late afternoon I headed out for a little Geocaching with the whole family tagging along for a change. And a good thing though cause Chaos Boy climbed at least one tree to get…
A couple of months ago on a road trip to Johannesburg I detoured through the town of Kroonstad in the Northern Free State to stretch my legs and... well... you know... find a geocache or two. One of the caches I was after is located at a holiday resort called Jukskei Park and on arrival I found cars parked everywhere. The resort plays host to the South African Jukskei Championships every year and I picked the week of the tournament…
Last night Travel Massive Port Elizabeth hosted a networking event at the Courtyard Hotel sponsored by the Courtyard and Town Lodge. Before the formalities we had drinks outside by the pool and I must say that the hotel must have one of the best pool views around. The best part is that one would never say that there is a road between the hotel and the ocean.