Victorian Villa Guest Manor 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.
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 ...

Saa er der nyt igen. Vi har nu haft nogle gode dage sammen med Collin. Det har vaeret en noget af en oplevelse. Paa et besoeg til Sibaya Casino spist vi verdens bedste buffet, som altid endte det med at jeg braekkede mig. Mange vil sige at det er ulaekkert at spise saa meget at man braekker sig, men til det har jeg et forsvar - det var GRATIS!
Collin vidste os rundt i nogel af forstaederne uden for Durban. Der er virkelig nogle store huse derude. Hvis jeg havde en milliard kroner havde jeg ...

... 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.

We stopped at the services and I needed the toilet for a chance. I took a little longer than I ...

Saturday 26th September. Port Elizabeth is a disappointment as the Laundromat couldn’t do our washing and closed at midday and the water front was sad looking and jaded. We had a nice hot breKky though at a café down the road and then returned to the backpackers where I have ...

ok, NOW we're in africa. we stopped being mr. and mrs. winey winerson (as in drinking wine, not complaining) and drove for a day and a half up the coast (through the garden route). we're actually in a small town called port st. johns (dirt roads)...it's only recently become a tourist haven. it's not even on the drop-down menu above. port elizabeth is a big town (paved roads) which we passed through. the benefit of driving the highway is that we were able to see so much of ...

... hostel at 07.30 and decided that we needed a little more sleep. A little after 11.00 we were up, showered and ready to go, so we asked about the place. It turned out that we were staying in the party area of the city that sat on the waterfront and surrounded the Ocenarium. We decided to familiarise ourselves with our surroundings and took a walk down to the beach, along the waterfront to the nearest supermarket and back to the hostel. On the way ...

... that South Africa was better off before the end of apartheid. That the country was basically going to hell quickly, because of all the new laws regarding the preferential treatment of blacks. He also stated that with blacks in power everything was now falling apart, because blacks were neither trained nor experienced in the jobs they were getting, but they were getting these jobs because they knew someone. I was a bit taken ...

let's start today with some great quotes that i have come across the past few days, brought to you proudly by my bus driver yesterday. the first and my personal favorite is, 'you travel not to escape life but to ensure life doesn't escape us', then 'life like an onion, you go through it layer by layer and at last you cry'. the busdriver, self declared as 'sam the man', i am sure had a connection to schumacher, as he had a little ...

... Tomorrow I am meeting up with all the others at the airport and my cycling adventure begins. I've already driven down quite a bit of the garden route and so I know what is in store . . . . let's just say I think it is going to be very, very tough! Well, enough from me - the next update will probably be during the cycle ride or after not sure yet. Hope all are well . . . . . I'm having the time fo my life . . . . may stay here :-) Bye for now PB x All too soon it was time to go back in

... every company's workforce has to include 25% black people, and I've spoken to white SA's who think that basically the whites are now repressed, and Aparthied has just been reversed as there's so many restrictions on what they can do etc etc, which is bull*it. It's not about reversing the tables, but about equality - about time in my opinion. When you get out of the city townships and move to the villages, you can see the difference. These people aren't just poor - they have ...