by 2summers | May 12, 2021 | Eastern Cape, The Blogitects
There’s a beautiful stretch of coastline in the Eastern Cape, about halfway between Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) and East London. Sometimes referred to as “the Sunshine Coast”, this area stretches along Route 72 and includes several small and...
by 2summers | Apr 16, 2021 | Eastern Cape, Museums and Buildings, The Blogitects
I’m not sure when I first saw a photo of the Big Pineapple. It might have been in a blog post, or maybe somewhere on Instagram. But I do know one thing for certain: The moment I saw the Big Pineapple, it rocketed to the top of my South African must-see list. I...
by 2summers | Apr 12, 2021 | #10SouthAfricanTowns, Eastern Cape, Food and Drink, Lodging, Museums and Buildings, The Blogitects
Last year, before the pandemic, I started a campaign called #10SouthAfricanTowns. I planned to visit ten small towns all over South Africa during 2020. Bathurst, 20 kilometers inland from Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape, was one of the first towns I put on the list....
by 2summers | Mar 30, 2021 | Eastern Cape, Free State, Lodging, Museums and Buildings, Parks/Nature Reserves, The Blogitects
Thorsten and I decided to take a long road trip from Joburg to the Eastern Cape, down through the Free State to the Sunshine Coast and back. We were super excited and had everything planned. But we had a vehicle problem. Our driving options were: 1) My beloved but...
by 2summers | Jul 4, 2017 | Eastern Cape, Lodging, Parks/Nature Reserves
We tiptoed along as the sun lowered behind us. The wind howled. Tendai pointed ahead and we could just make out the body of a large animal with three small, spotted heads bobbing around it. The body, we would later learn, was a kudu carcass. The spotted heads belonged...
by 2summers | Oct 6, 2015 | Eastern Cape
Two weeks ago I left Joburg on a road trip around South Africa, in a van full of bloggers and Instagrammers. We went lots of places in that van, and ate lots of potato chips. But I’ll get to that later. The major goal of our trip was to visit a tiny town called...