Me, Rachel Swailes. My blog about stuff I get up to in and around the Western Cape, Cape Town, George, Wilderness, Hermanus and other cool places :)

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Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Years ago we used to have family holidays every year. Most of the time we’d head to Wilderness (before we moved there) or to the Drakensburg or (and this is way back in the day) Umhlanga Rocks. Living in Wilderness is almost like living on holiday so that fell away a bit when we moved [...]

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Be prepared for a lot of photos with this one, the views were too stunning to single out only a few… Yes, for those of you confused that my birthday is not listed in facebook, Monday was indeed my birthday :) So Ruth took the day off with me and we had a great day [...]

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

On Saturday we got the troops together for a fonue. Karen, Ryan, Tracey and Ruth came to join us for the evening. For people who haven’t hosted a fondue forever(!), we seemed to do pretty well – and the addition of the 90% meringue-lemon pie was awesome!

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

We headed out to Silvermine early in the day while the weather was still decent. It was great to get outside after all the rain! We took a walk around the dam before heading up to the lookout point over Noordhoek. We started heading back just in time though as the cold front was starting [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Ruth and I decided to get some plants to liven up our places. I thought I’d grab a nice photo of them before they go off to the beautiful Plant Heaven In The Sky. Which is where most plants that we buy tend to go. I’m not sure how Ruth’s don’t make it, but mine [...]