Another long day of driving today from George to Port Elizabeth – along the scenic Garden Route, but also along a very boring 200km of toll road on the way to Port Elizabeth. I am […]
Hermanus is a pretty little seaside town that become a hive of activity during the Whale Watching festival in September. Today it is a sleepy seaside village, with some more affluent properties similar to that […]
Change of plan today…one of the other solo travellers has accepted my invitation for a road trip to the Cape of Good Hope. This will take most of the day, and the plan is head […]
Some short-cuts taken by the captain during the night mean that we arrive in Cape Town later than originally planned, but not as late as was being forecast yesterday. We pick up the pilot around […]
As the National Geographic Explorer heads towards Cape Town from Tristan da Cunha, the weather deteriorates and we experience heavy seas. We were incredibly lucky weather-wise to have been able to land at Tristan da […]
We have now left the Tristan da Cunha island group on the National Geographic Explorer. Our next destination is the end of the expedition – in Cape Town, South Africa. This will be the first […]
