One of my favourite things to do is walking in the countryside with our Jack Russell, Molly. Not just the daily walks around our village, but those that we do over the weekend, when we go a little further afield ...
I was lucky enough to find myself heading up to Garonga in September. It had been (far too many) years since my last visit – which was before the addition of sister camp, Little Garonga – so I was very ...
For those of you who are keeping up with our in-depth family holiday around KZN in South Africa, then welcome to the next instalment! The next stage of our itinerary was, in my mind, the one that I was a ...
Glen Avon Lodge is a family run boutique hotel in the heart of Cape Town’s leafy Constantia Valley, just 20 minutes from the airport and the V&A Waterfront. Annette and David Stringer along with their daughter Wendy ensure that all ...
By Claire Roadley I had been following the popular Motswari Rangers Blog for many years, and heard countless tales of the “Leopard-Man” – not to mention “oooh-ed and aaah-ed over photographs from my parents who had a rolling reservation at ...
A short and very easy flight from Cape Town and we land at Port Elizabeth. We head back to Avis to pick up our next Toyota Corolla and to hear the sweet tones of Serena guiding us on our three ...
Franschhoek – the beautiful, quaint, “must see” village in the heart of the Winelands. I have been here before on a couple of occasions, though never with enough time to wander the main street. This time I would have the ...
On my recent travels I spent some considerable time travelling through the Winelands to get a real feel for the style of the varying towns and villages that international tourists would visit. I have now visited Constantia and Stellenbosch and ...
In my last blog I visited Glen Avon and experienced the ease of which you could explore Boulders Beach and Cape Point. From Boulders we travelled back along the coast road, around False Bay. Here the scenery was wild, rugged ...
We arrived into glorious sunshine - not bad for winter in Cape Town! Table Mountain was visible in all her glory and the Cape Town suburbs were looking lush.
It was a very easy and quick journey from the airport to Glen Avon Lodge - a mere 25 minutes and we were turning off of Strawberry Lane in Constantia and buzzing on the intercom to enter the courtyard at the lodge.