Free State (Category) - 21 posts

On my way to Graaff-Reinet, I stopped off for a couple of days in the Karoo town of Philippolis. I really enjoyed it and wish I could have stayed longer.

During our weeklong road trip through South Africa, Mom and I spent two days visiting Bethulie and the Gariep Dam.

We spent my birthday weekend houseboating the Vaal River, only an hour from Joburg, through Old Willow No. 7 Houseboat Charters.

On the last night of our Blogitect Road Trip we stayed in the town of Wepener in the eastern Free State, on the border with Lesotho.

For the past six years, I've been yearning to return to Bethulie and the Royal Hotel. I finally got the chance last month.

Thorsten and Heather, aka the Blogitects, rode Phyllis the Ford Ranger FX4 on a nine-day road trip from Joburg to the Eastern Cape and back.

I bought some of my favorite things on a drive through Lesotho and the eastern Free State.These mohair tapestries and Basotho blankets make great gifts.

A quick holiday to the Drakensberg Mountain Retreat in the northern foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, where we saw a herd of wild horses.

I recently spent two days in Clarens – a quaint resort town in the mountains of the eastern Free State – as part of the MeetSouthAfrica local …

Seriously. I ate it all. I’ve been all over South Africa this month – four provinces, seven cities/towns (I think), and more hotels and restaurants …

Yesterday evening I arrived in Bloemfontein, a small city in South Africa’s Free State Province, with a bunch of other bloggers and photographers. It was …

Last weekend I went to South Africa’s Eastern Free State to attend the annual Cherry Festival in Ficksburg. I took the weekend off, more or less. I …