FrancolinHof Hermanus

... when travelling with children). They relaxed enough to go round it and play a jumping game at its roots. We were the only people there and it almost felt romantic. I did think of doing the how-many-people-round-the-bole-game, but quickly changed my mind when I heard a truck approach of out nowhere. I could hear voices shouting from the back of the truck. I almost imagined our murders at this point. I could not keep my calm anymore and with my best freaked out voice ...

... ide lejutottunk: Fokvárosból kora reggel indultunk, és egy festői úton, a tengerpart mentén és egyben a hegyoldal peremén végigkanyarogva, már 11 előtt megérkeztünk. Útközben biciklizőket, kocogókat kellett kerülgetnünk (valszeg a szombat itt is sportnap), ha nem éppen a kaja-agresszív páviánokat. A Jóreménység fokának környéke holdbéli táj, leginkább Izlandra emlékeztetett. És nem csak kinézetében, hanem mert elég hideg és párás is. A Cape Point-i kil ...

... buy one. We then drove back to Hermanus for hot showers and a wonder through the town. Another really beautiful place I wouldn't mind staying in for a bit. Rocky coastline full of kelp which made it look like hundreds of seals out playing. We stopped off for lunch at one of the many restaurants overlooking the ocean before trying to hunt down a phone card to text Oliver's Dad as Oliver had told him we were going shark diving but not that we were okay and Oliver's Dad had ...

... slow-coaches who veer onto the side-slip to the road to let you past), past reservoirs and dams....and finally I got to Hermanus at 10,30am. Had a quick walk around the town when I realised the next tour was not til midday and I picked up a new SD card for my camera because I'd never forgive myself if I ran out of memory space to capture what I was about to do. I wasn't able to find New Harbour in town so I pulled up alongside a traffic warden car ...

... a coffee and a pot of tea. Jubbly. We asked the waiter for a cab, he came back and said he couldn't get one, could the hotel not get us one? I went indoors (we had sat alfresco) and I asked them to call the Ocean 11 since didn't have my phone. Another waiter said don't be daft and gave us a lift! Get in, Francoise can stick his 120R round trip as the restaurants themselves offer the service and he wouldn't even take a tip. (Hope I didn't offend by offering one.)

... Cars, Planes and F**ries took me to destinations most people don't even dream of. I spent less than $2000 av**aging $30 p** day I slept an av**age of 4 hours p** night! I cannot explain the amount of data that my mind has absorbed - I am still processing it all and the slides I just got developed take me right back to those special unforgettable moments. Some travel**s I met along the way send me emails explaining how ...

... the rest of my plans are no longer. There's always a first time for everything - I'll remain optimistic and pray for perfection - that's all I can do! Tuesday 7th My life is hectic. I am working almost every evening and weekend, researching the logistics for my upcoming adventure, and constantly doing revision for my final exams at City Varsity, where I am studying Journalism. I am currently stressed because the Tanzanian's still don't have my passport and ...

... laughter. Ruth was rather hungover the following morning. After a quick drive to the beach where we spotted about 7 whales but failed to take a decent picture of them as they were too far away, we dropped Ruth back off at the hostel and said a very sad goodbye complete with tears. We started driving towards our next overnight stop at Mossel Bay but decided to take advantage of having a car by stopping only 10 minutes outside of Hermanus at a winery in the most ...

... gathering of the data in the form of measuring and weighing the children. I was in charge of one of the scales, which I had to set to the height of the child and then have them step on and the scale would produce their weight and Body Mass Index(BMI). For children under the age of 10 the BMI is supposed around 18. Out of the 60 kids we measured 3 were at or above 18, the majority that I weighed were between 13 and 16 and a handful were around 8. The point of collecting this data is to ...

... that we went to the boardwalk to view them it was extremely windy. We had to walk backwards. If we turned around we got pelted in the face with sand, it really hurt. The penguins are so cute and cuddly you want to just reach out and pet them. They won't let you and can do some nasty biting. Some of them are quite used to people and will let you get quite close to them. They stand and look at ...