while out in stellies, i was keeping in contact with otto, he was on his way from namibia. i was unsure of when i was going to get to see him, as he had other stops to do as well and people to see. the saturday morning i went for a early morning mtb cycle with my dad in jonkershoek. before i left home, i left my house keys in my garage, i just had this funny feeling that otto would surprise me by arriving earlier. and yip, what happened, as we stopped at jonkershoek to start the cycle, otto sent a message to say he was at my place, hahaha. luckily my keys were there. i still did the cycle with my dad, but my mind was on one thing, and that was getting home to see otto.
seeing him again after so many months was really nice, getting a hug was great!
this was our holiday:
1st outing was to kleinmond for some climbing. the hike up to the climbing point was exhausting. i felt so bad, the long drive to kleinmond, the long hike up and then i could only climb once. bit of a waste! i did try the start of the route a couple of times to conquer the tough beginning of the climb route.
an absolutely stunning view from ontop.
on our way home we stopped over for a burger and chips and another stop was at one of the crosses.
next on the agenda for the holiday was montagu. camping, climbing, uncle sams and an awesome time.
we took the long way to montagu, did some sight seeing. muuuuuuch better than the boring n2 road. a stop in greyton, what a pretty and weird place. some trespassing on a farm to take a look around and then to montagu.
after 2 days in montagu we took the loooong way home, via paarl, haha. a picnic on the side of the road with a stunning view.
a stop at the paarl taal monument, thanks monkey for taking me there. i have been wanting to go for a while and just never got there. what a beautiful place.
pics below, might explain the nickname "monkey" haha
a drink at the paarl monument, then in stellies at la romantica and then a "quick" stop over at de kelder in somerset west which landed up being a loooooong stop at de kelder and a random but oh so lekker evening spent together.
next was off to vredenburg to say hi to otto's dad and a night on the boat in port owen. the next day we went back to vredenburg to pick up otto's dad and our road trip to vredendal for christmas then started. we spent two nights in vredendal on the farm with otto's sister and husband.
* happy times!
one of our evenings out, landed up in ej's.
langarm, hell yeah!
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