What a way to end a tour.

On Friday, I walked around the Robberg Peninsula again, the first half seemed easy compared to my memories of the same route two years ago but then I hit the boulders on the  start of the second half an my euphoria rapidly drained away, it was a tiring walk especially in the heat but well worth it for the amount of wildlife I saw and it is a quiet peaceful, place. Next time I will just take a picnic to the beach and chill.

Looking back at Robberg beach from the start of the walk.

Cape Point the halfway mark, still full of confidence.

Path?, What path?

The goal next time with my picnic.

Yesterday, I said goodbye to Sedgefield and made my way along the N2 to Caledon, my last stay before catching the plane on Monday. En-route I stopped for a relaxed two hour lunch at an excellent restaurant on the outskirts of Swellendam, The Bakers Dozen. The N2 for most of that journey is a boring repetition of sheep and wheat, I much prefer the R62 through the Little Karoo. My garden cottage at Zoop B&B would make a fine base for exploring with a large lounge/kitchen/dining room, two bedrooms and a huge bathroom. My host Lindy is a well renowned chef locally and provided a scrumptious braai dinner for me last night of BBQ local sausage, lamb chops, oven roasted veg, new potatoes and a great little Afrikaans side dish, Smoor which is slow cooked onion and tomato with a touch of garlic and vinegar, I will have to try that one when I get home. Talking of which I am looking forward to cooking for myself after six weeks of mostly restaurant food.


Today was the ideal way to end my tour, the Caledon hotel is also a casino and spa with the added advantage of having natural heated mineral pools. I started the day with a quick exploration of the town, nothing to write home about but apparently there are a lot of interesting attractions in the local vicinity. My next point of call was the mineral baths, the hottest was far two hot for my sensitive skin but I spent an hour and a half soaking in three of the pools before going into the spa for my first ever full body massage, what an experience, I came out the other end feeling like I had been through the mangel but so relaxed as well, thank you Cisoxolo. I did pop in to the casino afterwards but there was nothing there to entice me and to see the people fixated on the one-arm bandits is quite depressing.

Well my host, the chef is making me her version of lasagne tonight so that about wraps up this trip, I need to do some serious planning for next month but I have booked again with Wicked Campers for both Oz and NZ so that is half of the work done.

22m long pick up and trailers.

Is that legal?

Bye now, got to go.