South Africa
Our blog posts from South Africa
We lived in South Africa from September 2005 to December 2007.
In May 2010 we returned to run the Comrades Marathon, and to watch the FIFA World Cup.
We spent a further 3-months in South Africa in 2024 to train for, and run Comrades again.
How (not) to qualify for the Comrades Marathon
How (not) to qualify for the Comrades Marathon If you want to know how NOT to qualify for the Comrades Marathon, The Ultimate Human Race, then...
My Comrades Marathon 2010
I don’t intend for this Comrades Marathon story to be a step-by-step account of the whole 89kms/56 miles because that is an awful lot of steps to...
There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas
Well the chances of snow in Africa this Christmas are slim where we are! The sun is shining, the wind is blowing and it is around 24 Celsius today...
Pirates Creek
We moved into our new place in Pirates Creek, East London, on Friday 16 December. After cleaning it for two days it now feels more like home. We are...
Schools’ out for summer
It didn’t take us long to realise that the school holidays had started once we had left De Aar and ventured into the Western Cape. Our next stop was...
A New SA Record……Almost
Well here I am again, it is my turn to fill you in with our recent story. The only real reason it is my turn is that most of it concerns...
Diamonds are forever…
Yeah so they say! Once we got Chico back on the road we drove out of Upington and just as sun was setting we found a beautiful country lodge in a...
Choking in the Kalahari
It wasn't us choking in the Kalahari, but Chico the car, more on that later...We managed to leave Namibia without having to pay the fine from way...
Look at the buffoons in Botswana
That was a slip of the tongue from Sharon as we crossed the border from South Africa into Botswana! What she really meant to say was 'look at the...
Welcome to South Africa – part 2
What a difference a day can make! We are happy to say that our second welcome to South Africa was a much more hospitable one. The day after we last...