Traveling and Holidays - The Cape

A Dark Day In Mosselbay

So we thought Swellendam was going to be the overnight but decided against it and pushed onto Mosselbay. We battles a bit to get accommodation as there was some tennis tournament but eventually landed up at Eldrew B&B. Now of all the B&B's we have stayed at we found the worst so far on this trip. It was the most expensive so far as well.

Robinson Pass

The rain set in last night and with it came the wind and we were on the top floor. Something was banging on the roof, this morning the lightning hit something and there was no power, the bathroom was juck, we did not have a good night sleep. We decided not to complain as the owner has to contend with serving breakfast with no power but if you saw our breakfast (and this after she told us that there was a BIG breakfast waiting for us) I rest my case. We have been staying in some real classy B&B's so this one was a bummer.

Oudshoorn

We hit the road towards Oudshoorn - our weather is not good. In Outshoorn we went to the Highgate Ostrich Show farm but they have had the bird flu and do not have any birds at the moment. At Safari Ostrich Farm it is so commercialized that half the tour is a video clip and most of the tourist were all bundled up in their rain macs and with umbrellas. Here you get ripped off by paying over R500 for a kilo of biltong. This is beef biltong you can't even get ostrich biltong here.
We spent some time up in the mountains near the Cango Caves and had lunch there. The Cango Caves are so busy that it is just loads of tour buses and long queues.

Tonight we are in Graaf Reinett - this is my kind of town. I love the old and the quaint. This town is just picture perfect to me. Even as far as the accommodation sign go, they are all same printing and nothing garish so nothing looks out of place. The streets are spotless and it is so safe the kids walk the streets at night to go and have a milkshake at the Spur.

This Beautiful Karoo

We will stay her tomorrow and visit the sights.

A King Size Bed For Tonight