Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Beginning - sorry for the delay


Left howick from Braeside Guest House at 5:30am gefaffing with goods. Getting to bed well after midnight on the night of the 1st Dec, we still successfully woke up at 4am.

Waking up easily


Excited and all ready for the first day

 We were lucky enough to be accompanied by THE Bridget Ringdahl for the first 45min of the trip. She took fotos allong the way and gave us a cheerful goodbye!  http://www.bridgetsbikeblog.wordpress.com/
We stopped off for breakfast because our stomaches were screaming, so we treated them with Muesli, banana and yoghurt we bought from Seringa Court Yard. Their toilets were like a 5 star hotel!

Seringa Court

getting breki ready

wat you want ek se

flying banana!
We made our way through Notties, stopped off at Rosetta, and into Mooi River to Desais to get their famous R3.25 toasties wich we found to be R4.25 - verry dissapointing, but were happy as hell to have left for our journey.Mooi rivier is not the most attractive town but we made the best of it . Finding a deserted camp and caravan site with big chains round the gate, this was our chosen destination to sleep for the night so we had to think carefully about what to do.We ventured up the road towards weston agriculture school having in mind what Bridget said ,schools or Churches . There we came into good hands, the head master let us stay in the pavilion .
The Pavilion


cooking lunch after settling in

our camp

THANKS MR TAIT as well as the farm manager. We missed the rain and ate, made a fire,showered, had tea, hardest ground for a bed and morning. We've been loading the carbs every meal - bread and pasta.HOWICK-MOOI RIVIER 60km

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oooiii...lovely early mornin pics!!!
We gonna miss you tonight here at Braeside!!
Have a wonderful Christmas and we all send loads of good wishes for the rest of the journey!!
Love from the folks back at home xxx