Best “Safari” in 28 years of visiting Africa

I have just returned from a tour of 13 days, of which 7 days was a game viewing “safari” in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, at Addo National Elephant Park and Shamwari private game reserve, with 4 people, of whom one young man of 22 was a wheelchair user. We set off from Cape Town through to the [...]

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New accommodation

I have a few new ones that I checked out last month. After years of “nagging” our bestman Dennis Jenkinson in Port Elizabeth, he and his wife Sandy, have adapted one of the rooms in their guest houses and built in a roll-in shower and grab rails. The room has an added bonus of having [...]

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Winter newsletter – August 2008

With Spring knocking on the door, with wonderful weather yesterday and today with temperatures just into the 20′s C (70F), I think we are in for a real treat with our Spring flower display – Mother Nature at her best. She gave us a really hard time this winter with rain for weeks, so solid [...]

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