Welcome to the Schindlers on Tour Blog
The posts on here are our own real life experiences, nothing more, nothing less. They’re our memory bank to look back on when we’re old and weary! We would love it if some of them inspire you to make memories of your own.
Our Latest Blog Posts
Bike Touring – our essential tool kit
Bike Touring - our essential tool kit A tool kit is an essential for any bike tour. There are some must have items we will need to carry with us in...
How we chose our touring bikes
How we chose our touring bikes Choosing touring bikes for our first ever cycling tour to New Zealand was a tad daunting. It took a bit of time and...
Next up – New Zealand on bicycles
Planning our return to New Zealand No its not an April Fools joke! The time is right to start planning our long overdue return trip to New...
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...
Namibia in a nutshell
Five week road trip in Namibia We have spent just about 5 weeks exactly in Namibia. It has not been the easiest country to travel around in a little...
Windswept on the way out
Now in southern Namibia and at last we hit a tarred road at Aus, it felt strange, but good! After averaging 60km per hour for the last 4 weeks,...
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