Monday, April 20, 2009

Easter in South Africa

South Africa has to be one of the most beautiful countries in the world, as we were driving through the Klein Karoo on the way to the Garden route I could picture dinosaurs roaming around - sounds bizarre but it really does feel like a place where life began!
It was a perfect way to spend Easter, we drove 2300km in 4 days which was pretty crazy but I got to see so many of the sights, being in the open space and surrounded by greenery and wildlife was very cleansing and a welcome change from the desert.

One day I will buy a beach house in Knysna - its on this blog so I can hold myself to this and it The Secret makes any sense then it will come true ;0

I have fallen in love with ostriches, they are so cute we learnt all about them at the ostrich farm, stood on their eggs, watched people ride them and learnt how they feed then tucked into an amazing ostrich steak - I did feel guilty but it was lush.


Knysna

Another lovely camel moment

Our colleague is currently working in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi and sent us through this classic photo titled "A daily sight in the Western Region... brilliant!!!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Fujairah

We just came back from a mini road trip across the UAE to another of the 7 Emirates - Fujairah. We were unlucky with the weather over the weekend - cloud, rain and then perfect sunshine as we got in the car to come home!! Anna and Dan managed to fit in some diving, although it was a shallow dive and they didn't see any Nemos but Anna did see a turtle which is pretty cool.
Fujairah the town is a fairly small beach resort with a strip of the usual 5 star suspects, we had a lovely meal in Le Meridien last night which was the nicest hotel there any much nicer than the 1970's Sandy Beach hotel which we opted for - I admit I am becoming a Jumeriah Jane and was so happy to see the lovely Shangri La when we got back tonight!!

On the way home we stopped off in a random town called Dhaid for an Indian, we were the only ones in there not eating with our hands and were being stared at with fascination by all the customers - but really great food for a place totally off the tourist track.


We also stopped on the motorway to take a shot of the camel crossing sign - how great is that?