Clare Travis
Ranging in Rangers Reserve
Part 6: Summer Holiday '22/'23 Last stop for this trip, Rangers Reserve, outside of Touws Rivier and back in the Western Cape. What a...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 23
- 3 min
Relaxing in Camdeboo
Part 5: Summer Holiday '22/'23 After such a busy time shopping in Clarens it was good that our next stop was in the middle of nowhere. We...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 18
- 5 min
Clarens
Part 4: Summer Holiday '22/'23 Off to our next stop we go, Clarens in the Free State. A nice short 4 hour drive, but with lots of...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Howzit Howick
Part 3: Summer Holiday '22/23 Next up on the roadtrip, Howick in KZN. Oh golly, what a long and difficult drive. We left Hogsback early...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 10
- 4 min
Happily in Hogsback
Part 2 : Summer Holiday '22/'23 From Baviaans we moved on to Hogsback, about a 7 hour drive. Surprisingly some of the roads through this...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 6
- 4 min
Beautiful Baviaans
Part 1: Summer Holiday '22/23 Ahhh the summer holidays have arrived. Now that lockdowns are on the back burner we could do a further...
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Clare Travis
- Aug 13, 2022
- 5 min
Meijer's Rust(ic) Farmstay
Last long weekend until December holidays! We decided to travel a bit further and found a very secluded cottage at Meijer's Rust farm....
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Clare Travis
- Jul 31, 2022
- 4 min
Porcupine Hills Weekend Getaway
During one of my previous accommodation searches I came across Porcupine Hills, outside of Botrivier, unfortunetly it was a little over...
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Clare Travis
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
Stunning Stellenbosch
It's not often that we will stay somewhere closer than 2 hours from Cape Town, but on a race weekend it is a bit easier to stay in the...
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Clare Travis
- Feb 28, 2022
- 4 min
Cozy Country Cabin
These days it's quite difficult to find a quiet, decently priced, dog friendly place within 2 hours of Cape Town. So the Country Cabin in...
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Clare Travis
- Feb 17, 2022
- 5 min
Matjiesvlei New Year
Part 3: Summer holiday 21/22 Last stop of this trip, our New Years place. We have stayed a few times in Calitzdorp and always driven past...
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Clare Travis
- Feb 8, 2022
- 4 min
Bonniedale the 3rd
Part 2: Summer holiday 21/22 Our second stop after Xmas '21 was one of our favourite spots, Bonniedale Holiday Farm. Since the drive was...
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Clare Travis
- Jan 20, 2022
- 6 min
Eagle Falls Xmas
Part 1: Summer holiday 21/22 Finally the holidays arrived! My workplace was very slow to let us know when we would be off over the...
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Clare Travis
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
Why Pampoenfontein?
I'm not sure where the name comes from, as it's a protea farm (not pumpkins), but Pampoenfontein is a lovely place for a weekend...
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Clare Travis
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
Fancy Franschoek?
Edit September 2022 - Sadly this place has put it's prices up by more than 25%, so I can no longer recommend it as a budget stay. It...
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Clare Travis
- Aug 30, 2021
- 5 min
A Wild (Flower) Weekend
This year we finally got ourselves together to go see the wild flowers. After a long struggle I found a great full time job and we...
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Clare Travis
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
The Most Beautiful Farm - Bokrivier
What a gorgeous find! I was looking for somewhere not too long a drive from Cape Town and saw this place advertised on Instagram....
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Clare Travis
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
After lockdown escape, to Citrusdal
For our first trip after lockdown we decided to take it slow and only do a short drive. Citrusdal is about 2 hours from Cape Town and...
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