Rain in Monopoli, Stars in Spain.

As fate would have it, the weather took a turn. Daytime temperatures dropped from the mid-twenties to the high teens, and with the cooler air came adverse conditions. We had torrential rain, and in a town built on an incline, that quickly became a problem. The roads turned into fast-flowing streams, and I now understandContinueContinue reading “Rain in Monopoli, Stars in Spain.”

A road trip – Oudtshoorn, Montagu & Franschhoek

We couldn’t resist one more beach walk before starting our drive back west. We traveled from east to west along the N2, the main route through the Garden Route. But, instead of taking the same route back to Cape Town, we decided to take the much longer, yet more scenic, R62. This road winds andContinueContinue reading “A road trip – Oudtshoorn, Montagu & Franschhoek”