Archive for April, 2008

When sitting in the restaurant just next to the accommodation in Langebaan this is the view you have when eating and watching the sun go down. Full story

Kleinmond has the most beautiful scenery and is great for photography. In this scaled down image you can see how the clouds make a shadow and bring out the green colours landscape photograph. On the right is the playpark and far right is the beach, lagoon and sea. Full story

Kleinmond used to be a big holiday destination and it probably still is. With Accommodation right on the beach as you can see in this photo in the background, there used to be a camping site I dont know if it still is there. We used to camp there when it was still safe to ... Full story

Noordoewer is a well known stopping place when you travel to Namibia. Noordoewer is just after the border when entering Namibia from South Africa. If you drive past Nooroewer there is nothing but rocks for miles. It looks like mars without the red. There is a nice place to stay in Noordoewer and its the best place to stay if you're headed towards Etosha. Email me to ... Full story

Worcester is in the Western Cape, South Africa. Just outside of Worcester is Brandvlei dam which is also a great place to visit. Worcester is a well known stop on the way to Johannesburg. Worcester is about 190 years old. It was founded in 1820 when two farms called Roodewal and Langerug merged. They named it after Marquis of Worcester who was the brother of the guy ... Full story

The word "Karoo" comes from the Koisan, otherwise known as the Bushmen. The Bushmen is the tribes of people who have lived there almost since right after the great flood. The Karoo is almost as dry as a desert but it has Karoo plants. The Karoo has a great amount of wild life and animals of every sort and kind can be found there. A ... Full story

When I first heard about Sutherland I was very interrested in finding out how it looks. I could not wait to see the stars and walk through the little town. Sutherland is in part of the Karoo if I am correct. We drove hours from Cape Town and when we finally arived in Sutherland we could not believe how such a nice little town can ... Full story

Buying a motorhome in South Africa might be a great idea because of the increase in House costs. Think about it. How much do you pay for your house? Do you like your neighbours? Well the thing is, living in a motorhome can be way better than having a house. Now I am not talking about those small motorhomes or those oversized caravans people talk ... Full story

Traveling in your Motorhome in South Africa can have its downsides but mostly its enjoyable. One downside is when you get to a camping site and you realise that a few things you must have is just not there. So you booked for a week and you cant really stay because of one of these issues: No electricity Many camping sites or rather most camping sites have ... Full story

Typed some time ago, never posted. 1. Stumbleupon www.stumbleupon.com Its not wrong to promote your site using social bookmarking utilities and websites, as long as you do not pay people to promote it more than you can do on your own. Be honest, use one account and if people like what you have stumbled they will give it a thumbs up. Some say stumbleupon give more traffic than ... Full story

1. Figure out what your blog is about and make it clear to others People that know you might want to read your personal stuff about your dog and your slippers. Even regular readers wont mind if something is off topic but if you advertise your blog, those people dont know you and if they cant figure out why they are visiting your ... Full story

Imagine you have no readers. Or you get banned by google, your site crashes and you have to start from scratch. Yes that will suck and it will also remind you to make regular backups. Now imagine something smaller like posting to many off topic posts or not using images in your post. Big deal right? Well it is for some people, especially people in the blogging ... Full story

Basics A blog is the short name for the original meaning "weblog". A weblog is where posts or articles from a person or many people are displayed in date order. "Blog" can also be a action or a verb that means do post to a blog or update a blog Many blogs blog about a certain topic, meaning they post articles every now and then or mostly ... Full story

One of the things you must know by blogging off topic is that you will lose readers. But blogging off topic might just be the best thing your blog can get. If you stick to one topic all the time but you have other interests, why not try and blog about those interests. I was surprised ... Full story

The quality of the trailer is a bit crappy but the best I could find to actually post. The movie seems rather cliche and a little adolescent (more for kids) but hey first have to see it. One up is Christina Ricci plays in it I have always thought she ... Full story

What Happens In Vegas is definitely my type of movie allot of comedy a little romance good looking woman and an actual interesting plot. These days there are very few good comedies out there all a little on the bizarre and vulgar side. This however looks brilliant. A guy and girl go to Vegas separately met ... Full story

Now this is funny. Truly a good British comedy so much better. I'm so going to watch this. Full story

This looks good. When I saw the poster I thought another action hero bunch of crap, I was wrong this actually looks like it would be good. It's about a man that sell weapons who is taken prisoner then he makes this suit to escape then improves it. A ... Full story