Protea Hotel Grahamstown Port Elizabeth

We survived and had a great time at the game reserve searching out the 'Big 5'. Leopard proved elusive though we did have some great sightings of a cheetah and her 2 cubs which more than made up for it. <br>We also managed to catch a sighiting of the only 2 lions on the game reserve on both our first and last day. The male is a massive fella (as you can see from the pic of ...

... snakkede med hende. Det resulterede i at jeg fik en sludder med ejeren som saa bad mig om at skrive det hele ned i en mail saa at hun kunne gaa videre med det. Til at starte med var der bare lidt Halloej pa Badehotellet over hendes inkompetence, men naar man raaber ad gaester og kalder dem diverse ting og sager, saa er sgu for meget. Da Lasse havde naevnt over for en anden gaest at vi ikke kunne sove om natten paa grund af et larmende sydafrikansk cykelhold vi maatte dele dorm med, hev ...

... and lied down. I had to sit back up because the bus was filling up but it was to let 2 girls sit at the back so I did not mind too much. I apologised for being rough and stinking of booze and fell back asleep. I did not make many observations on the way as I was too tired unfortunately. <br><br> We stopped at the services and I needed the toilet for a chance. I took a little longer than I ...

... The teachers often don't attend the classes, and when they do the students often get a whipping for no good reason. They have barely any money, as we have been asked to aquire arts material, and the money we soemtimes give, seems to go into the teachers back pockets, so as you can guess, we stopped. The school has vast amount of sports equiptment and books in an unused store cupboard, with a several metres of dust on. The school field has plenty of ...

... a bit later than scheduled, I made a hurried parting from my tour-mates of the past two weeks. In fact my departure was a bit abrupt and not what it should have been given how much time we had spent together. But I was afraid of missing my taxi and I was a bit stressed by being thrown out into urban South Africa on my own for the first time, so I didn't take leave from my tour mates as I would have wished. I will write to them later to explain and apologize ...

... lost only one bottle, ******* his way through the living room in the evening. Ann burped so loud, it made our car vibrate. Greta kept on using dirty words! F. here and s. there! I called a butt a butt and got fined. But, let's go back to the South African game. Yes, there are quite some pictures. But try them. Again, most of them are made with the girl's camera. A couple of them will make it to our wall, one day. Seeing those elephants (50?) bathing ...

... lucky for us, we caught a lift with a guy in a truck (or bakkie as they call them here) after walking uphill a few kms. From Hogsback I went to Port Elizabeth. Its a city of about 2 million or so but I felt quite safe there. The one day I was there it was overcast and rained off and on (but no complaints from me as that had only been the second or third day of rain up to that point of my trip) but its still good to walk around. PE (as the locals call it) has a ...

... 2 hours drive west along the coast from PE. The bridge is an impressive structure spanning a deeply wooded gorge which spills a river into the sea. The views themselves were worth the drive, but we had to go one step further! After paying up (there was no chance of a refund if you bottled it) and getting kitted up with a harness, we made our way out to the centre of the bridge underneath the road way ...

... on the BazBus. So it's Monday afternoon 20th September, PE isn't very exciting really so it's a good job I'm off tomorrow. The backpackers is dead too...got up at 10 this morning to find absolutely no one else in the building at all, hopefully they'll be a few people around this evening, most people arrive in the afternoon. Just done a bit of shopping and now I'm here finishing this log. Should be in Cape Town Thurs/Fri where I'll stick around till about the 2nd of October.....

... Sweet surfer Simon taught me how to stand up on a surfboard with bubblegum flavoured wax. Even tho I got hit in the face with the board I had to persist and it did pay off. I visited Bulugha Farm School where I heard some beautiful songs that in over a month of listen to Idols (reality Tv of people trying to make it big in the music industry), could not compete with. These big toothy grins send shivers down my spine...just knowing that the ...