After a couple of days relaxation here in Plettenberg (read walking by the beach, reading, and showering as many times as I can without it being strange OCD type behaviour)and dodging the cockroaches in my room - they were only babies and somehow that didnt seem so bad. im ready to move on. Ive just walked 1km up a hill so steep i thought my backpack would drag me back down and now relaxing in a quaint coffee shop at the top, they have something called a 'harvest table' here, ive not seen this before. The idea is, you pick what you want to eat and are charged R19 per 100g, i wonder if this is a good answer to food waste? (19 rand is about a £1) Im going to hole up here as long as i can on the free wifi (it's 11.30 now and my bus is 1.4km away at 2pm so i reckon ive at least and hour or two) How long can you reasonably make a latte last? I cant have another else ill be on the ceiling!
As i walked away from the last job ive got the luxury of ten days or so free until my next masterplan (more about that later) Ive spent a stupid amount of time online trying to figure out where to go and what to do. The next big town is Port Elizabeth so ive booked the Intercape bus to go there this afternoon and a backpackers in town called The Hippo for four nights.
I can see that the Addo National Elephant Park is nearby and theres a good chance of seeing lots of native animals in their natural environment which i really fancy doing cost permitting.
Workaway isnt giving me much choice for the next few weeks in the area and im not quite ready to leave SA just yet - my visa has a few more weeks on it so ill see what i can do before i leave.
Ive booked a backpackers called Hippo in Port Elizabeth and am hoping its nice, a female shared dorm was £10 a night.
Major annoyances thus far are my kit failing, i spent out on what i assumed to be decent stuff as i wanted it to last the distance and its been wholly disappointing, North Face hoody, zip broken, Montane trousers and shorts - really bobbly fabric now, and worst of all my beloved Vibram Fivefinger trek shoes have holes in them, at three months old this really isnt acceptable. Its hard to make any kind of complaint when you are 9000 miles away but im having a go! So im a few items down and getting quite sick of the same clothes all the time after six weeks, first world problems huh?
Right, time to see what fun things there are to do in Port Liz.....
In a later post ill tell you about my next big plans, but i can't reveal it just yet (otherwise ill have to kill you etc etc)
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