Christmas in South Africa

What a fantastic Christmas!

After much debate and travel planning, Ferdi and I finally boarding Swiss Air to JHB via Zurich on the 24th of December. Landing in JHB on Christmas day was pretty strange, the normally crazy JHB international was strangely quiet and subdued. Our first night was spent at a great little lodge in Boksburg, called Cedar Manor guesthouse. (look out for some great deals for our clients) on our holiday site www.lekkerholidays.com. Nothing like a braai on Christmas day! Our host Kobus was fantastic and all the changes we made to our time with him, including extra nights and extra kids was never a problem.

The next day it was up early, and off to Cape Town, due to a mix up with our car hire (there’s always one who messes it up) We had to be fetched by Ferdi’s brother. A short drive and we were at the spectacular house in Bothasig, dop in hand and in the pool with the kids.

It was fantastic to see ALL the brothers together, Ferdi’s dad couldn’t stop smiling. We even had the added bonus of having one of the Ouma’s with us for a few days.

Highlights over the next 2 weeks were definitely, shopping (and more shopping), fish and chips on the beach, crayfish braai, snoek braai, Soekie Dans on New Years Eve and a fantastic trip on a Catamaran from the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.

It was all to soon time to go, we borrowed our Nephew Jason and flew back to Joburg with my son and Jason playing Nintendo light the whole way. Back to Cedar Manor, where we spent 2 days organising suppliers for our South African shop. Then it was off to Sabie in the Lowveld. We stayed at Merry Pebbles (maybe you remember it?) it hasn’t changed at all. The kids (and Ferdi) loved the tube ride on the river and the heated pool was a hit with everyone. We did some horse riding just outside of Hazyview and visited a fantastic waterfall. Bought some stock from traders for the shop, lovely.

Then back to Cedar Manor for our last night in sunny South Africa, and here we are back in the UK… (Not that bad I suppose)

All in all a fantastic trip, tons of sunshine, boerewors, klipdrift, wine, family, swimming and friends.