Friday, 23 Dec 2011

We woke up this morning to no electricity which was probably due to the thunderstorm and continuous rain all night so Philip had to haul out the gas stove to make our breakfast as we were in a self-catering chalet.

We left Hole in the wall at 08h30 and although the road was nowhere near as bad as yesterday, there were a few stretches of gravel road that were a bit of a challenge! We decided that we would rather have a good gravel road than a bad tar road where some of the potholes are big enough to swallow George or at the very least, cause a tyre blow out!

We drove through Keiskammahoek to see the state of the community clinic and church that a relative of Philip’s used to run over 35 years ago. Sadly, the clinic is in ruins, but the church, although in a state of disrepair, is still being used.

The last 10km into Hogsback took us through some thick lush indigenous forest. (See the attached video).

We enjoyed a delicious dinner next to a roaring fire (it is cold and wet up here) and then retired back to our very nice hotel room.

We stayed in a lovely cottage at Arminel Lodge (See attached photo) called Periwinkle Cottage.