Ideas and Events
Celebrating Life in fun ways. Different ideas to add some excitement to life. Create your own fun!
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Clarens Craft Beer Festival 2015
“Beer is not the answer. Beer is the question. ‘Yes’ is the answer!!๐” It was the long-awaited Clarens Craft Beer Festival last weekend… Craft Beer Breweries from all over South Africa were there…
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Traveling to the Edge of Africa – Cape Point
Imagine how adventurous and ambitious (or desperate) Bartolomeu Dias and the other first european explorers must have been! To sail off into the big unknown without really knowing where they might end up…and…
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Reasons to Fall in Love with Cape Town
Many people are totally in love with Cape Town and it’s easy to see why. Cape Town is simply on a completely different level to other places and it’s quite difficult to compare…
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Our Quick Getaway to Shumba Guest Farm
You don’t always have to travel very far for a bit of adventure. Sometimes a break from your routine is the very thing you need…and maybe you’ll discover, like I did, that there…
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Xanthe’s Wedding in Port Elizabeth
“Take care of your mind it will help your body look good. Take care of your body it will make your mind feel good.”- JMF Some call it the friendly city, most call…
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Rhinos at Emoya’s Voetspoor Fees
There were white paw-prints painted on Bloemfontein’s roads yesterday… We followed them and they lead us to Emoya Estate’s 2014 Voetspoor Fees! The paw-prints were really there but actually we heard about the…
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10 of my favourite things in the Midlands Meander
So about 4 weekends ago, the only weekend in 6 years which it snowed in Ladybrand, Marc and I went on a road-trip to the Midlands Meander. Although we were a bit bummed…
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A taste of India – Taj Mahal & India Travel Tips
The Taj Mahal is one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World… And quite a remarkable sight! It was definitely not a disappointment! Our bus stopped quite far from the Taj because…
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A taste of India – Jaipur to Bharatpur to Agra
Jaipur is known as the pink city. “Pink it’s the color of passion, Cause today it just goes with the fashion.” But in India it represents hospitality and it was painted pink almost…
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A Taste of India – Delhi
If India was a food it would be a sweet &sour pumpkin-marshmallow-chocolate pie covered with ‘hundreds and thousands’ served with nutty caramel ice-cream and silver balls. When I think of India I think…
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Scuba in Sodwana Bay
It’s an incredibly exhilarating yet daunting feeling- to be 20m deep in the ocean while sucking oxygen from a face mask. I was not a natural scuba diver…not at all…It was actually really…
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Malealea in Lesotho
“Muther, futher, good morning!” We will never forget the friendly, little face of the Basotho boy who greeted us with such enthusiasm when we returned to the campsite late in the afternoon after…
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Hakuna Matata in Zanzibar
Are your feet constantly frozen? Does your nose resemble Rudolf the reindeers? (Shiny, red and wet). Is your body constantly shivering with imaginary ice knives piercing it? Are you counting down the days…
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Exploring Ladybrand
After a few years of wanting to see Ladybrand’s natural rock “stalle” (stables), I finally did! It was such a quick climb! It would have been even quicker if I could keep up…
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Family Time in the Eastern Free State
We had one day to show my parents the Eastern Free State. It was one jam-packed day but I think we did a pretty good job. Thanks to Lionel for being the tour…