Along the Garden Route

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After our morning ride on Elephant Sam, we hit the road again and drove another 100 kilometers East, along South Africa’s famous Garden Route. It is a string of coastal towns, starting from Mossel Bay and stretching all the way to Port Elizabeth. The name comes from the green and ecologically diverse vegetation, from African Fijnbos […] Read More

The Western Cape

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In order to escape Christmas and its shopping and jingling terrors, we got up at 6h30 in the morning an headed East, out of Cape Town, and towards Mossel Bay. We drove all morning, some 400 kilometers East, through the Western Cape’s mountain ranges, its farmlands and forests, bush land and hills.   The country […] Read More

Shopping less

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After a quick stroll through the beautiful Company Gardens, a park in the heart of Cape town, we went to the V&A Waterfront. It’s a newly re-developed area around the two basis of Cape Town’s harbor, named after Queen Victoria and her second son, Alfred. Today it houses a number of restaurant, bars, markets and, […] Read More

Xmas in SFO

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On Thursday, I arrived well in time for the little dinner Renato and Dennis had prepared for me and our friends Lisa, her parents Nancy and Jim, and Brandon. We had ham, rice, Brussels sprouts, salads, cheese and lots of wine. I managed to stay awake quite long, despite the 5 hour jet lag from […] Read More