Everyone has been telling us about this marvelous national park just a few hours from Natures Valley so we are ready for a new experience with the pachyderms.
We are the only people in the dining room for another one of Claudette’s excellent breakfasts again in the immaculate Victorian dining room, all white linens, white china and silver? Swerving pieces. Muffins and home made banana loaf are taken for the ride ahead. Once again, Claudette is full of great suggestions as to what to do on the way.
We also have time to Facetime with Liz & Clive, who is really doing well on the mend from his very serious illness earlier this month. We are so relieved to see him and hear their news.
We will have a fully equipped cabin - but we are not sure how equipped - and know there is a resto there. However, we stop off at the amazing farm store in tiny Nanaga near the park entrance. Everyone from miles around has driven here and the smell wafting out of the bakery/kitchen is amazing. They make the best pies this side of SA so we stock up on venison, wild boar and lamb pies, great bread, a box of stringy-free mangoes (6 for $7) from Swaziland (who knew they have figured that out...) and a box of passion fruits (8 for $3) - my absolute favorite - even though they play havoc with my sore mouth due to the high acid. The longer you keep them, the sweeter they get so I am getting better at that.
I also stock up on We have some supplies from our stay in the apartment in Cape Town. We are all set for 3 days to battle hunger. We take off at 10, first an easy romp out of busy Port Elizabeth, with its sulphuric fumes in the industrial zone (big car manufacturers here) and on to the fast N2 motorway. There is a flat grassy plain for miles to the west but we head straight north. We stop in at the town nearest Addo for beer and milk. Big mistake. We pull onto what is listed as a beer source. Everyone in town looks like they are on speed, they gather around our car as we pull up and we get a very uneasy feeling about getting out of the car, taking out a wallet and buying anything here. We pull out again and hope we can buy things in the park. We pull into Addo at 12:30 and checkin but cabins are not ready til 2 so we walk around and look at the rather poor info centre and take a drive to our cabin. It’s a nice big cabin with all the things you expect from a self-catered place. BUT they are expecting power outages, 3 today, and we don’t find this out til we plan to reheat our pies in the microwave! Dinner will be late.
We also have time to Facetime with Liz & Clive, who is really doing well on the mend from his very serious illness earlier this month. We are so relieved to see him and hear their news.
We will have a fully equipped cabin - but we are not sure how equipped - and know there is a resto there. However, we stop off at the amazing farm store in tiny Nanaga near the park entrance. Everyone from miles around has driven here and the smell wafting out of the bakery/kitchen is amazing. They make the best pies this side of SA so we stock up on venison, wild boar and lamb pies, great bread, a box of stringy-free mangoes (6 for $7) from Swaziland (who knew they have figured that out...) and a box of passion fruits (8 for $3) - my absolute favorite - even though they play havoc with my sore mouth due to the high acid. The longer you keep them, the sweeter they get so I am getting better at that.
I also stock up on We have some supplies from our stay in the apartment in Cape Town. We are all set for 3 days to battle hunger. We take off at 10, first an easy romp out of busy Port Elizabeth, with its sulphuric fumes in the industrial zone (big car manufacturers here) and on to the fast N2 motorway. There is a flat grassy plain for miles to the west but we head straight north. We stop in at the town nearest Addo for beer and milk. Big mistake. We pull onto what is listed as a beer source. Everyone in town looks like they are on speed, they gather around our car as we pull up and we get a very uneasy feeling about getting out of the car, taking out a wallet and buying anything here. We pull out again and hope we can buy things in the park. We pull into Addo at 12:30 and checkin but cabins are not ready til 2 so we walk around and look at the rather poor info centre and take a drive to our cabin. It’s a nice big cabin with all the things you expect from a self-catered place. BUT they are expecting power outages, 3 today, and we don’t find this out til we plan to reheat our pies in the microwave! Dinner will be late.
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