and the journey goes on...

And the journey goes on…

The following day we got up extremely early and picked up our car, a Ford fiego. Yes, it is a small car for five persons, but hey we are girls… Frauenpower…We put the big bag in the trunk and everyone a smaller bag on their legs and it worked out.

Driving on the other side of the road, yes it is difficult in the beginning, but we all made it and you get used to it. 

 And we all tried to help the driver: “Heeey you are onthe wrong side of the road! Left side!! ”.

Our first stop was Mosselbay (Bay of shelves) and you could see why it is called like 

this:

We would stay here for the next two days. Our accommodation was an old train only 30m far from the water. You could hear the waves. Truly this was an amazing night I had and defiantly a dream which came true! We ate dinner at the beach and could see the light of the city turning on.

The following day we woke up by the sound of the ocean, went to the breakfast and to the city. It is really touristic and kinda remained me of America. 

We went to many shops, even visited the oldest post tree, a tree where a message was found under and someone built up a mailbox under it. 

 

Afterwards we spent the day at the beach, looking for the most beautiful shelves.

The next stop was in a city called Knysna, where we went to the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. Our hostel receptionist told us to drive there. It was a nature reserve and simply beautiful, not only because we were basically the only ones at this beach. It was a little windy and we all got sunburned really badly. Shame.

In the evening we had a delicious BBQ at our hostel. At first we had some difficulties with lighting up a fire, but at the end it was a really nice idea.

We all slept really well in our beds and the hostel was a really nice one!

We decided to go to the beach again and two of our girls had some surf lessons while we others waited and watched them.

In the early evening we drove to Plettenberg Bay and went to a restaurant where we had dinner, sadly the other girls were still hungry afterwards, it was a quite expensive restaurant, so they had to get some more bread at Spar. We still make fun of this…My pizza was delicious.

The other girls went to party with some guys from the hostel, but Leonie and I were not in the mood and stayed there.

Our next stop was Jeffery’s Bay. I really felt like home in the hostel because it was a chilly and relaxing atmosphere there. JB is a surfer city, because “the waves are the best “, so there were many surfers in our hostel, which was a little out of town and kinda hart to find. But anyway we made it  :D

We walked downtown and looked around, went to the Billabong Outlet (still expensive haha ) and decided to have a little cake break in a small coffee shop. It was a good decision because the carrot cake was really delicious.

Our next morning started with sleeping in, had breakfast and a lot of talking while sitting in a Hollywood swing *-*. We went downtown to meet up with Michaela, the girl who left the Kinderhuis about a month ago. She came with two guys from her new project and they went surfing. In the evening we all went together to a restaurant and had really delicious dinner. I know I talk a lot about food, but compared to the Children’s Home food the food all the time was super delicious and something different than rice…

So this was it for today…the journey will go on…

Love from the hot Africa