Cape | LIVE . TRAVEL . LOVE . CAPTURE

Beginning February we returned to the Cape for our friends’ wedding!!! It was a gorgeous event!!! I managed to capture a few memorable moments which I will share with you today!!! 😀

In the air… Loving the view – we landed in showers – Scary!!!

The evening before the wedding was to take place, they had organised a get together for all the friends and family!!! 🙂

Sunset view panorama!!!

My bf and a friend silhouetted against the sunset!!!

A rainbow appeared after a few days of showers… It was gorgeous!!!

Wedding day… a few minutes to ourselves before He-who-thinks-he’s-boss had to leave on best man duties!!! 😦

Our traditional shadow portrait!!! (we could only spare three minutes on the beach…)

Wedding Venue!!!

Some of our friends heading down to where the ceremony was to take place!!!

One of the (My) best men!!! 😉

Blurry Musicians!!!

Ceremony location!!!

The ‘to-be-wed’ couple!!!

Wedded Bliss!!!

Heading back to the reception area!!!

Having a good time!!!

Thank you for taking the time for reading this looooooooooooooong overdue post!!! 🙂 It was a gorgeous (cold) weekend… All the best for these newly weds!!! 😀 **

Hi everyone!!! I’m back!!!! 😀 Been chillin’ at home for the last couple of days before starting work again on Monday (which I am not at ALL looking forward to… L )!!! First of all: hope you all had a great Christmas & New Year… all the best for 2012 J – – – I made some resolutions (for like the first time EVER!!!), so it should be a busy year!!! – – – Watch this space…

Let me start off with my holiday stories… 😀 Our plans changed constantly, but in the end I think we had a super enjoyable & a very relaxing time!!! We drove almost 4800 kilometres – – – C R A Z Y – – – 😀 !!!

Our first day of road-tripping down to the Cape included about 450 km’s from Pretoria to Bloemfontein. There we had a good catching-up with our friends & an early evening for the next day’s travelling!!!

Still fresh & full of energy on Day 1 !!!

On our second day of road-tripping, we again stopped at various small little towns. These include Phillipolis & Trompsburg. Our first stop was Trompsburg, there we enjoyed breakfast in a very quaint little shop/bakery. I have to explain this first: there are no tarred roads, no traffic lights, old old old houses & only the bare necessary shops. That we could even get breakfast there is a wonder!!! 😉 They only had 4 items on the menu:

Coffee
Tea
Fruit juice
Pie (with/without salad)

Not quite the breakfast I had in mind, but it had to do!!! – – – Beggars can’t be choosers 😉 – – – We had quite a lovely chat with the owner (who definitely does NOT like people from Gauteng province, he claims they are always in a hurry – which us quite true!!!) 😉 Oh well!!! 😀 He had an interesting shop, full of old rulers & equipment, random dolls… & it was very VERY pink!!! 😀

Old ruler, still in 'inch' units - In SA we use the metric system, so rulers like these don't come along often these days!!!

Our 'breakfast' pie & coffee!!!

How cool are these teapoons made from old 1c coins?? Just loved it!!!

I told you... VERY pink!!!

Garage doors in Trompsburg!!!

& then we were on the road again… whizzing to the next town!!! 🙂

Our next stop was Phillipolis, where also only the main road was tarred with no traffic lights. There was a beautiful church & small little antique shops & art galleries. This is also the place where Emily Hobhouse was buried – What a legend!!! 😀 If you don’t know who Emily Hobhouse was, follow this wikipedia link or this biography link for her very interesting background & story!!! In short, she was a British woman, living in South Africa in the time of the Anglo-Boer War who fought for humanity & took care of the ill & wounded in war times…