Wifi and knees.

The wifi in my B&B ran out 4 days ago so I am playing catchup now I am in the Millbury luxury guest house in Port Elizabeth. This is an amazing place, the bed is big enough for four, my room is huge with a couch, table and chairs, kitchenette, real wood floors and bathroom with shower and double ended bath and that does not include the garden, pool and undercover BBQ area.

For the past few days I have been chilling and doing some casual exploring. I had to check out the Bloukrans Pass which all the signs said was closed but lo and behold some South African gentleman with initiative has removed the government berm and the road is open if a little dodgy in places.

Friday after a failed trip into the forest to visit the first goldmine in South Africa (someone phoned in sick) I went down to Robberg beach for a walk, it was only three or four miles but now my left knee is objecting but it did give me the opportunity to take a photo of the Robberg Peninsula which I had walked earlier in the week.

Saturday I revisited the Farmers market in Sedgefield which is heavily supported and I met a couple of people I had zipped with earlier in the week - I am now fully conversant with all the problems of South Africa having had the benefit of Julie's insight now on two occasions.
While in Sedgefield I had another look at the house I had liked last week and had a good old explore, one of the most interesting finds was Sedgefield Classic cars which was displaying cars from 1940s American and European up to 1980s Japanese Classics?? there were also a couple of Moggy Minors. Being back in the area again I could not resist visiting Hoekwil again for coffee and carrot cake.

Yesterday saw me back in the forest at the Bendigo gold mine outside Knysna but thed best thing was the speed trap put up by a local farmer who is obviously fed up with people speeding past his place.

I also snapped a photo of Knysna's equivalent of Dai Logs.

And being Sunday I stopped for a late lunch at Totties  a backwoods country store that sold everything as well as a buffet three course lunch including roast lamb dinner, with the shade temperature just above 30C I settled for two plates of salad.

I am now in Port Elizabeth for three nights, I did have plans to get out and about but I will have to see how the knee holds up - it is now about twice normal size.

They have an interesting set up in the chemists over here, drugs are only sold in pharmacies but I have been into the 'self prescribing' channel and told them what pills Dr Ramsey prescribed for me last year and they said Oh yes we have them and handed them over, no prescription required.