cazawaza! This will be the first post that comes up but i don't have time to fill it out and i've just got your 'comment'! Thanks so much Gorgeous! :-) I'll email you as soon as i can!!!!
Greg's here saying i only have 2 minutes left........arrghhh!!!! (We're due to go to Rodden's Island in a tic) and here we are..in here with all my unfinished blogs! haha
Just wanted to let you know i've been thinking about ya.......
And....bout the Paris Hilton glasses! They're wonderful! :-)
Hey. By the way, we have hardly anything in the packs. So I won't need much space for this blog here that's for sure!
Thanks for the comment. Love hearing from everyone.
Luv and hugs to all!
jen & greg xxx
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
PLETTENBERG
16th March 2007
Plettenberg
Day 15
Stayed at Amakaya Backpackers". Owner was a young Africaans guy called Fred. Fred from "George!" He looked about 20 or so but probably about 25. He met us there after we looked up our Backpackers guide to find this place and it just looked so gorgeous.
I was expecting some down and out digs but this was ok. Cept for the taxi stand nearby which just wasn't any old taxi stand. It was a black taxi stand where 'whites' pick up the 'blacks' for work. There were hundreds of poor blacks standing there and whites picking them up in utes to take them to work. This is the real South Africa i think.
And we've seen so much of it. These sort of areas where blacks stand waiting for work or wait to be picked up for work. That's what i meant in one of my last blogs where i thought Apartheid wasn't dead. I know it is because there's obviously no such tolerance for slaves anymore. But the social gap is still huge. There is still a social standing where the Africaans appear to be more well...dominant?
Or have an upper hand or whatever you want to call it. The blacks have the nouce and the work spirit but the whites are there driving them. Interesting because in the laundry where we did the washing we saw some articles in the local paper on the local attitude.
Very diverse, eclectic yet all sides are passionate. I'd like to get into this further but don't have time. I hope i do get time to be reflective in here because at the time i feel i only have time for facts and i'm finding it frustrating. Also find it emabarrasing that i can't edit either. So please accept my apologies for any mistakes. I keep thinking i must go back and edit. I know i need to do some and have taken scribbled notes on bits of paper when i've realised i've relayed wrong information.
About Pletts.
The scenery is amazing! Went from vast lands to forests. A bit like travelling to Gero to Margaret River really. So different.
Going to say more here....will update later!!!!!!
TBC
Plettenberg
Day 15
Stayed at Amakaya Backpackers". Owner was a young Africaans guy called Fred. Fred from "George!" He looked about 20 or so but probably about 25. He met us there after we looked up our Backpackers guide to find this place and it just looked so gorgeous.
I was expecting some down and out digs but this was ok. Cept for the taxi stand nearby which just wasn't any old taxi stand. It was a black taxi stand where 'whites' pick up the 'blacks' for work. There were hundreds of poor blacks standing there and whites picking them up in utes to take them to work. This is the real South Africa i think.
And we've seen so much of it. These sort of areas where blacks stand waiting for work or wait to be picked up for work. That's what i meant in one of my last blogs where i thought Apartheid wasn't dead. I know it is because there's obviously no such tolerance for slaves anymore. But the social gap is still huge. There is still a social standing where the Africaans appear to be more well...dominant?
Or have an upper hand or whatever you want to call it. The blacks have the nouce and the work spirit but the whites are there driving them. Interesting because in the laundry where we did the washing we saw some articles in the local paper on the local attitude.
Very diverse, eclectic yet all sides are passionate. I'd like to get into this further but don't have time. I hope i do get time to be reflective in here because at the time i feel i only have time for facts and i'm finding it frustrating. Also find it emabarrasing that i can't edit either. So please accept my apologies for any mistakes. I keep thinking i must go back and edit. I know i need to do some and have taken scribbled notes on bits of paper when i've realised i've relayed wrong information.
About Pletts.
The scenery is amazing! Went from vast lands to forests. A bit like travelling to Gero to Margaret River really. So different.
Going to say more here....will update later!!!!!!
TBC
MOSSEL BAY
Checked out of Daddy Long Legs and had breakfast next door. Re Cafe. Had 2 Ciabatta breakfasts and 2 long blacks. We're getting used to the black coffee after suffering a bit from the SA milk..not sure why? And the yellow cheese?? Weird stuff and very irritating to the stomach for some reason. Anyway, perculated, which is what we're mostly having tastes so much better black!
We went to the bank to fund our Garden Route which took about an hour at the bank trying to organise. Passports spread out, us relying in Australian that we're not murderers or mobsters. Anyway we got our money.
Travelled 300km and had afternoon tea, muffin and cake, for $R55 at a local village. Booked into Margueretts BB at 6pm. Bikers in town for Buffalo festival. Went to Ocean Front for dinner, had steerbok. Now why does this sound familiar. Have i said this all before..arrghhh.....ok i'm panicking..only have 20 minutes on this internet to get all this done before we're off to Rodden Island!
Actually, i'm finding i'm not having enough time to write. I love to write and those who know me know i spend HOURS writing. And...oh, i don't have enough physical time to fill in my diary, blog that is, on here so i'm finding myself spending time daydreaming as i'm travelling on what i want to write on here and then finding, once i get on here, i don't have time to write! It's my only thing that i'm missing. Being able to write..i tell ya...
And oh yeah, i'm really missing getting dressed up! haha! Yep, i love going without makeup and wearing my 'safari' clothes...but i really miss my jewellery, my perfume, my make up...my luxuries like that!
OK i'll rave about that when i finally fill in the blog entitled what's in our backpack! I was inspired to head that one after i saw how crap i looked in those pics i uploaded. Greg looks great! (as always, isn't he so handsome?) But me...eeeewwww!
Okay i'm going to write about Pletts now!
We went to the bank to fund our Garden Route which took about an hour at the bank trying to organise. Passports spread out, us relying in Australian that we're not murderers or mobsters. Anyway we got our money.
Travelled 300km and had afternoon tea, muffin and cake, for $R55 at a local village. Booked into Margueretts BB at 6pm. Bikers in town for Buffalo festival. Went to Ocean Front for dinner, had steerbok. Now why does this sound familiar. Have i said this all before..arrghhh.....ok i'm panicking..only have 20 minutes on this internet to get all this done before we're off to Rodden Island!
Actually, i'm finding i'm not having enough time to write. I love to write and those who know me know i spend HOURS writing. And...oh, i don't have enough physical time to fill in my diary, blog that is, on here so i'm finding myself spending time daydreaming as i'm travelling on what i want to write on here and then finding, once i get on here, i don't have time to write! It's my only thing that i'm missing. Being able to write..i tell ya...
And oh yeah, i'm really missing getting dressed up! haha! Yep, i love going without makeup and wearing my 'safari' clothes...but i really miss my jewellery, my perfume, my make up...my luxuries like that!
OK i'll rave about that when i finally fill in the blog entitled what's in our backpack! I was inspired to head that one after i saw how crap i looked in those pics i uploaded. Greg looks great! (as always, isn't he so handsome?) But me...eeeewwww!
Okay i'm going to write about Pletts now!
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