Cathie Rooyen
Market day
The locals have been raving about the Saturday morning market and advised me to go so I did. I got there around 8am and was surprised by...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 11, 20221 min read
Wild-er-ness
There's a small town, possibly a village, in between George and Knysna in the Cape province called Wilderness. I used to think of it as...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Great-full
Gratitude and grateful. I'm feeling it today. In spite of feeling oddly tired and spaced out. But the concept of gratitude is only one...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 9, 20221 min read
World crisis averted
The scene was set for an early morning run, then a possible trip on the Outeniqua Power Van train. Then my friend realised that we had to...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 8, 20221 min read
Into the wild...
In my first phase of my World Tour of South Africa in Durban, I caught up my an old friend from the Vaal, who now lives in Ballito. It...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Birthdays and views
February is a month full of birthdays for me and today my friend had hers. She came down from Johannesburg to start her new year at the...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Smooth Sundays
Another lovely day spent in this beautiful part of the world. I managed another run and went a different direction to see the sea at the...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Lounging lizards
Spending time in one location means that this travel blog can be a series of boring diary entries. Today could have been seen as a...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 4, 20221 min read
A day of pause (again)
I woke up to more loadshedding and gloomy weather so was curling up for another round of sleep when I suddenly remembered that I had a...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 3, 20222 min read
Rest
It was strange waking up to an 'empty day'. But the realisation that the fan was off meant that our loadshedding was still in effect. I...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 2, 20222 min read
Spooks, tolls and love
Last night's Ghost walk was fantastic and it was only in retelling some of the stories today that I realise just how much information we...
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Cathie Rooyen
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Who ya gonna call?
My day started early when I woke at 4am and realised that I had to walk down the narrow train passage to the loo. I tried not to make too...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 31, 20222 min read
Gifts galore.
This morning I managed a run and it was fun. I've been consciously not running so I could give my back spasm a chance to properly heal so...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 30, 20222 min read
Sun(ny)day
I woke early this morning again asking myself two questions. Where am I? What day is it? And then I adjust the curtains to check the...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 29, 20222 min read
Karoo mystery
I left Sutherland with intentions of stopping at the British soldiers' cemetery outside the town but once I drove away from my Whitehouse...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Church stories and sokkies
Today I woke up thinking I needed to rush. Then I remember that I have another night in Sutherland. I saw the pretty dawn light...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Star trekking
When you see the Southern Cross for the first time... I'm dizzy. Literally staggering around the bnb. I put it down to keeping my head...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 26, 20222 min read
Reflecting
I've been on the road for a week tomorrow. It feels longer. It's also 2 weeks since my dad died. That feels even longer back. A part of...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Maatjie in karoo
Matjiesfontein and I might have met a few new maatjies too. I had booked this tour with the fantastic historian Dr Dean Allen and I was...
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Cathie Rooyen
Jan 24, 20221 min read
Daytime writing?
This is bit out of my routine writing today's blog, today instead of tonight but I am in a place with very limited signal so I thought I...
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