Writing this from the comfort of my couch in Greystones with electricity, hot water, my bed and my jeans!!!.... what a wonderful trip...still zonked (just got home yesterday) and re-adjusting but will get there...
So South Africa...well flew out of Lilongwe airport on the 17th...were very happy to find a taxi with petrol to drive us to the airport and glad to leave before any protests/riots started. Since we have left the Prime Minister has removed all his cabinet so does this mean a dictatorship?? MMmmm...not sure...
Delayed in Jo'burg airport for hours so arrived in Port Elizabeth v late on the Thursday night. We were hoping to say hi to the Bennet family but time went against us unfortunately... left PE on Friday after an amazing nights sleep in a bed, with hot water, electricity, a lovely toilet and a TV...we didn't know ourselves...
Drove to a small village called Jobertina (on the R62 route on the Garden Route) and stayed there for 3 nights. It was a beautiful cottage in the middle of no-where... with no electricity again... so out with the torches/night-lights again...was kind of funny! Met lovely people and the quote of the stay there was 'Jobertina is a one horse town...at the weekend the horse is dead'...when we asked if there was an internet cafe... . At night all we could see were the stars...beautiful....also became friends with the biggest spider I have ever seen!!!!
Drove then, on Monday, to Arniston Bay...about a 8 hr drive, down the beautiful Prince Alfred Pass, into Knysna for lunch and then across wine country to Arniston - a fabulous seaside town with lots of cottages, cliff walks, beaches etc... Unfortunately the rain came but that didn't put us off and as we sipped rum in the hotel, beside the open fire, we thought life wasn't too bad!!
Then three nights in Camps Bay, just 15 min from Cape Town...what can I say - Out of this World..! We were staying in absolute luxury, over looking the Atlantic, waves crashing (the only thing we heard)...just incredible. After shopping in Cape Town we settled back into 'western life' with sundowners, fish and sleep... popped into a spa for a massage and fish eating our feet (all the rage apparently!)...and chilled... and then flew from Cape Town - Heathrow - Dublin arriving home yesterday...
Good to be home and cant wait to see everyone and catch up.... but what an amazing summer...have really been bitten by the travelling bug and would love to head back to Rwanda for a while... also maybe Zimbabwe and Mozambique (must learn how to spell it first!).... Have our Malawi Table and some other bits and pieces to remind us of an amazing summer.... You should all do it...!
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