Category: Parts Unknown
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Family Vacation 2019
I’ve had mixed feelings about this vacation since we booked it. We had shortlisted Colombia, Morocco and Costa Rica and if I’m honest CR was the least exciting for me. It has just never really hit my traveling radar. It’s a very beaten path which just generally turns me off.…
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The end.
It’s here. Our last day. In some ways I feel ready for our visit to be over. It’ll be nice to get back to routine, our space and our home people. In so many other ways I’m terribly sad it’s over. This place and these people are so special to…
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Middelvlei saves the day
Our time here is quickly coming to a close so we have been busy soaking up as much sun, summer, family time and wine (to help dull the pain) as possible. Monday we came good on our last promise to Charlie and Madeline and headed back to the V&A waterfront…
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Saved the best for last
Seriously, this weekend, swoon. We kicked the weekend off Friday night at Nollie’s for an awesome braai. Nora fell asleep, the kids watched a ton of tv and Jacob and I got to kuier with our friends. We sat outside, enjoyed the heat, made a nice big fire had some…
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Table Mountain
This is our fourth trip to South Africa and third to Cape Town and we still hadn’t been up Table Mountain. We fixed that on Friday. When we lived in Korea with all these South Africans we heard a lot about table mountain and to be honest I never really…
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Wining and Whining
Jacob loves oysters. A lot. So we figured we should include an oyster related activity into our vacation plans. Jacob knew of an oyster farm in Saldanha Bay – just up the coast from us – via Instagram. He contacted them and arranged himself a little tour. The kids and…
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Water Slides and Zip-Lines
Charlie might be part fish. This child loves to swim in all manners. He has been looking forward to going to the water park since we gave him his water park ticket at Christmas time. Unfortunately, on many levels, there is a rather serious drought happening in Cape Town which…
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Knysna Elephants
We left Cape Town on Monday and have been living it up in Knysna for the last couple of days with Dene, Jaco, Lienka and Ian. We have this stunning house rented on thesen island that has its own private jetty and a spectacular view. We are definitely being spoiled…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 