Aboard Dignity (Lagoon 420) Blog

Still not a lot to say as it’s all family time. We’ve had one trip to the coast and have on most days managed to walk around Grahamstown for the exercise. We have completed our ‘medical tourism’ following visits to the dentist, optician and doctors for check ups, all of which have gone well. The weather flip flops as I guess it normally does at these latitudes – having been in the tropics we’re used to small changes in temp each day. We’ve had max daytime temps vary from 17C to 33C.

To give you a feel of the old colonial look of Grahamstown here are some pics from our wanderings.

While we’ve been enjoying our time with our family here in Grahamstown we have been polishing off our plans for our own mini-holiday at the end of our SA trip.

Next Monday morning we’ll pick up a hire car and head down to Port Elizabeth. Along the way we’ll spend the day at Addo Elephant National Park. We’ve been there a couple of times before but this won’t take away from the thrill of going again. We’ll spend the night in PE before flying up to Johannesburg where we’ll pick up another hire car and head down to The Cavern in the Drakensberg where we’ll stay for 5 nights. This should be a really nice getaway with plenty of excellent hiking. For our final night in South Africa we’re booked into the Impangele Guesthouse which is not too far to the international airport.

The satellite photos of Grahamstown are not so hot. However, the street view is pretty good. Here is my parents house :

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If you want to take a stroll to the town center, turn left, go to the end of the road, turn left again, go to the end of that road, turn right at the tee, go to the roundabout, turn left then go to the church.

Still just chilling with family. School’s off for summer. Brother-in-law and nephew have gone off on a male bonding trip to Namibia. My speech about our travels seemed to go down well elsewhere. Weather is pretty variable. Plenty of rain.

Haven’t blogged for a few days as family time, while being meaningful to us, doesn’t provide a lot of material to write about. The most notable event was being without power for a day and a half which is now fixed.

Before we came here I was encouraged to provide a public talk about our trip. I still need to prepare. I haven’t got a problem filling the time but I need to spend time picking pictures to show and figuring out exactly what I should talk about from all our experiences over the last three years. That’s hard work.