TyskJohan’s random thoughts

On Wednesday, we went “down south” to Pemberton for a couple of nights.

Rachael cooking aussie-style breakfast on the barbie

We also did some wine tasting and shopping at Salitage and the excellent Lost Lake wineries.

Is it just me, or does “salitage” sound like a french word related to dirt?

Lene, Stian and Rachael under the shark tank at AQWA, the aquarium of Western Australia.

Sorry for not updating the blog in a long while. There was no Internet (and no public telephones) in South Africa, so we have been a bit out of touch. We’ll give you all the details (like the huge elephant that passed 5 metres from our tent at night) once we’ve overcome the Jet Lag.

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After 5 hours of driving from Johannesburg, past places marked as “hi-jacking hotspots” and a lot of sights we didn’t know (Bourke’s Luck, The Three Rondavels and lots more) we arrived at the gates of the Balule Nature Reserve, where the Drifters Game Lodge, our accomodation for the next two days, is located.

After the flight to Johannesburg via São Paulo, we had to sleep in for a while. In the afternoon, we did a tour to Soweto and got to see an informal settlement, as well as seeing “the Beverly Hills of Soweto”, Nelson Mandela’s house and the Soweto memorial.

In the evening, the innkeeper took us along for dinner at a shopping mall in the well-to-do suburb of Johannesburg where the inn was. “I’ve never seen a European order the large portion of Spare Ribs”

Before we left Buenos Aires, we took another tango lesson. This was a private lesson, just the two of us and the teacher. And Olga to take the pictures, of course! We started at 9 pm and were pretty exhausted afterwards. But not too exhausted to have Bife de Chorizo at Desnivel afterwards

Yesterday we went on another day trip, to Tigre. It’s an archipelago in the Delta north of Buenos Aires, with fancy boat clubs and week-end mansions, as well as fruit farms and lots more… which we didn’t manage to see because we overslept. The bar in our hostel was open until 5 am and it was quite noisy. Also, unfortunately I can out of batteries for the digital camera while we were on the boat trip…