Alan Jeeves Blog

This was my best holiday of my life, me and avi went to Cape Town – her home town and travelled along the Garden Route to Plettenberg bay.

Below is our experiences at each location.

Cape Town – Village Lodge

Our first stop was at Village Lodge in Cape Town central. Nice area but due to it raining all the time while we stayed here we didnt venture out much. Finding the place was a bit of a challenge – just look out for the restaurant’s name: Soho.

The hosts there were very nice, including Rickardo which spent a couple of drinks with and had a funny evening. Peter was good fun too!

The hotel was nice, they had a roof garden thing with a nice looking pool and garden chairs etc, would had been lovely in the sun

The room was basic – sadly two beds put together, but this time it wasn’t that uncomfortable, and we had no hand wash But the bar and restaurant area was very nice and the food was great!

Talking about food – for our first evening we went to Cattle Barren for dinner for Avril’s sister Cheryl’s birthday, the steak was amazing, our waitress: Natalie was entertaining even though Mr B called her Vanessa, and some of the waiters sang happy birthday which rounded the night off very well.

We also ate at the V&A Waterfront at Cape Town Fish Market, average food really, i had yellow tail.

On our treks out, we ended up at Mariners Wharf at Hout bay, and the restaurant: Wharfside Grill. It was wonderful here, I had Kabeljou and chips and Avi had a great lobster. We got a free glass when i had a cocktail drink, Andreas was our sailor waiter

We also went Bowling at Grand West Casino – awesome place!

Oudtshoorn – Lavendar House

Our next stop was far east: Oudtshoorn. We stayed in a lovely peaceful guest house ran by Rita. We had a Braai here at night next to the pool, very romantic. Too ws the room – where the bat and toilet was altogether with the bedroom, lucky we were comfortable with each other!

We stayed here for one thing: Cango Caves. This was great fun even though we did the normal non-adventures tour, where our guide Eric sang to us in the dark.

We went to the Cango Wildlife Ranch on the way back, where I fell in love with turtles and we saw meerkats in real life – amazing creatures! Our guide here was also good fun.

We ate at Jemimas on the main road, nice food as usual where Avi ate Ostrich meat for the first time.

Plettenberg Bay – Halcyon house

Next stop: Plettenberg Bay, where Charles and Judy welcomed us to their tranquil guest house. These were probably our best ‘hands-on’ hosts, cooking us breakfast, pouring evening drinks and chatting to us while Avi was kicking my butt at pool.

There was one high street which had restaurants, we ate at Ghillies Grill where Miriam was cheerful and liked Avril’s ‘rack’ Food was okay here, Avril had to send her steak back for more cooking

Upstairs at Fu.shi was a mixed bag – our waiter was probably the worst in SA! But the food was yummy.

We went to the Plettenberg Bay game reserve and went on a Safari on the back of a special land rover, i was at the back being bounced around like i was on a roller coaster!  But the experience was amazing, seeing so many animals in their natural habitat, probably my best excursion of the whole holiday.

The beach here is nice and quite, we had KFC there and the mash and gravy was yuk!

Mossel Bay – 1 Point Village Guest House

I realy liked this guest house at mossel bay. We went for the attic room, which was airy and also had the bath and toilet with the bed – open plan style along with an amazing balcony looking out to the sea.

The sea front was lovely with the waves crashing in, the restaurants were very touristy, but we found a Spur tucked away which wasn’t, and was the usual Spur greatness.

We found a wicked Braai spot, on the river bank where i created a great fire, so great while we were packing up to go someone came asking if we could use our fire for their Braai

Hermanus – Aloe House

This town was nice, Rosemary the host, the huge room, private pool and the free bottle of sparking wine!  The room was self catering on two levels – up stairs was he bedroom, with a ’shower under the stars’

We walked Fernkloof Nature Reserve, where along with the proteas and other plants was a little turtle!

We again ate at a Cattle Barron – and again had a lovely steak!

Avril was amazed at the whales in the bay, we saw more when we ate at the Ocean basket where avi ate a huge platter of prawns, king, prince and queen! I had a lovely fried fish.

On the way to cape town we stopped off at Cape Lagulhas – the most southern point of Africa (it was very windy), and then we had a braai at Kleinmond (cheese and ham toasties)

Fish Hoek – A whale of a time!

This place was self catering, and had a balcony over looking the sea – amazing views!

The room was airy but the carpet near the bed was rough on your feet, the bath room was small and dark and they didn’t supply much ‘extras’, like cooking oil, ketchup, drinks etc would had been helpful also we had no salt and pepper until we left a note for the cleaner

The pool was great – although again there was no ‘extras’ like towels.

There was not much in Fish Hoek but theres plenty around it, like penguins at Boulders beach, the scratch patch at Simons town to name a few.

We also found a resturant which had Potjiekos – i had lamb Avi chicken curry – well nice!

We travelled to Cape town lots from here and visited Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, went up table mountain and cape point and shopped at the huge Canal Walk.

The End

It was a great trip – where I found out why Avi kept on going on about Marcel’s frozen yoghurt – it was as good as she said!