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So, it was still raining when we headed for breakfast at the hotel … a buffet with a difference … The choice of cereal was All-Bran flakes or cornflakes, sealed tightly under stretched cling wrap in individual bowls. Where you were supposed to get the milk and sugar for topping from, we still don’t know. […]
Eighty degrees of irritation … Since Kob Inn things had been going downhill at formula one home straight pace! We left the Kob in a light drizzle, lunch pack in hand, just a few minutes after Wesley and Mike. These guys were hard core, no nonsense, mountain bikers riding the Imana Wild Ride course unassisted. […]
After a rather uncomfortable night of hanging on the edge of our inflatable mattresses to eat our supper of chips and salticrax, the day couldn’t dawn soon enough. The rain had forced us into the tent at 5pm the previous evening and we’d been stuck inside our little canvas cave since then. That in itself […]
Is Grahamstown on the moon? What else could one think when we saw all that uphill! The distance was not impressive but the terrain was. What was meant to be a ‘little turn of the pedals’ day turned into a nightmare of vertical cranking. We had so wanted to feel the warmth of the sun […]
By Tezferguson
Cross Africa has gone glam! We’re booked into the hotel Garden Court Mthatha. Could get used to this … We left a breezy Kob Inn after a rather restless night of listening to a group of hikers who’d arrived there the afternoon, party in the bar until 3am. Apparently the owners had only given permission […]
With Anita waving madly in our rear-view mirror, we left a chilly Port Alfred. But not before having another marvelous opportunity to hand out a Bible to a very appreciative cleaning lady at Medolino. Anita said she was nearly in tears when she came to the office with her brand new Bible. It’s this kind […]
Woken by the weaver birds in the tree across the road, we lay in a while from their 6am alarm song until 7. The morning air was nippy but nothing like we’d experienced in week one, so packing progressed at a tidy pace and we were ready to leave before 9am. Backtracking to the R72, […]
Packing up in a blistering Addo, we created quite a spectacle where we stopped to take a picture at the entrance. Before hopping on the bikes, heading Paterson, the rubber-necking day visitors had nearly tipped their cars over … But seriously, the ride out was spectacular in the fresh morning air … and we got […]
I was treated to a cup of coffee in bed … a bribe to get me to cycle all the hills (jokes!) Suzann’s knee has been giving her a bit of trouble of late, especially on those long climbs. So I volunteered to take on most of the climbing work for the day. After a […]
