A Year In Motion

After having seen Spain qualify for the World Cup Final, we started the last leg of our World Cup odyssey back towards Johannesburg. At this stage, having seen almost all of South Africa and its main attractions, there remained only one – the Drakensberg mountains.
Forming a natural border between Lesotho and South Africa, [...]

Hi again everyone! Well it’s been a while since we updated the blog, as Africa has presented more than a few difficulties in obtaining reliable internet connections, or any connections at all. As a result, we’ve packed a lot into our last two posts from South Africa, so apologies for a long post.
On our [...]

Sadly it was time to leave Cape Town. We both loved it so much that we would like very much to move there. We battled with the decision of staying longer, but that would imply missing the famous Garden Route and rushing the 1600 km drive to Durban to see the Germany Spain semifinal. [...]

Third post from Cape Town, and the last. We squeezed in a lot to our last night and morning in Cape Town. After returning late from Robben Island, we headed straight out to dinner with our new friends, Kim and Dumi, who we had met while tasting wine a few days previously in Franschhoek. Kim [...]

The day after the Spain vs Portugal game in Cape Town was beautiful, so we couldn’t believe it when the staff told us that all the ferries to Robben Island were cancelled due to rough seas. We were about to get annoyed when they told us that they couldn’t rebook us for the next day, [...]

Cape Town lies on a peninsula of land which the Portuguese originally named the “Cape of Storms” in the 15th century, but subsequently changed it to the “Cabo da Boa Esperanca”, or the Cape of Good Hope, at their optimism of opening a trade route to the east. Bartolomeo Dias and Vasco da Gama [...]

Honduras had just been eliminated from the World Cup. So it was just as well that the next stop on our South African odyssey was bringing us to the south-western Cape, South Africa’s wine country, and some timely tonic to soften this heavy blow. Nonetheless, we still had over 1,000 kilometres to travel before we [...]

Although accommodation costs n South Africa are high (anywhere from 33-100% higher than the season usually demands), we’ve just left the carhire company with a new car at a great rate thanks to Travelsupermarket.com, and it looks like we’ll be able to drive South Africa in a saloon car, and stay in decent accommodation – [...]

Back in Johannesburg, well almost. Thanks to Francois, who we met on the plane from Dubai to Jo’burg, we are staying in a guesthouse in Pretoria which is about 50km north of Johannesburg. Our next game is against Spain in Ellis Park in Johannesburg on 21 June, mid-winter’s day (or mid-summer depending on where you’re [...]

One of the great things about the World Cup in South Africa is the fact that we have added a wonderful country to our round-the-world itinerary, and the fixture list will bring us to parts of the country that we would not have independently selected to visit. Nelspruit is based in the north-east of South [...]