Tag: small town South Africa
Road Trip 2025. An overview of our final week on the...
This post is dedicated to my wife, Carolyn, whose idea it was to use this trip as a celebration of our 18th wedding anniversary....
Some highlights from our recent Namaqualand flower tour.
A lone quiver tree stands proudly in a field of yellow daisies.
This is the final post in a series I have published about a...
Fields of Fire: The dazzling Namaqualand daisies.
Sometimes it is not how you start, but how you finish.
This was to be our overnight accommodation on the final night of the tour.
What...
Namaqualand flowers road trip with Platteland Tours. A bucket list tick.
This is how it began...
07h00 on Saturday, 13th August, when a group of soon-to-be friends congregated at the Sasol Pinehaven Garage on the outskirts...
Ventersburg, small town South Africa personified.
Caught in the late afternoon sunlight.
Ventersburg is about 2 hr 22 minutes (237,8 km) from Johannesburg via N1. There are a couple of reasonably...
Back again. LA Guest house, Piet Retief.
After having taken a wrong turn that took us over the Lebombo mountains and past the gravesite of King Digaan, we at last found...
What happens in Hoedspruit…
This guesthouse was to be my lodging for one night. After my Google maps brought me to Hoedspruit without incident, it decided to first...
LA Guest house, eMkhondo (Piet Retief). Mpumalanga.
Having lived in Noupoort, Cradock and Graaf Reinet in the Eastern Karoo, I have an affinity with the inhabitants of these small towns in...
Elegant by name, elegant by nature. Overnight at the Elegant Lodge,...
"The road is long, with many a winding turn. That leads to who knows where. Who knows where". Contrary to the lyrics of that...
On the road again. KZN road trip overview.
Travel & Things has just returned from a 1500km/ 20 CD road trip to the KZN North Coast to do 'research' for upcoming Blog...
