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Queen of Hearts Part 2 – Mozambique / Transkei / Morgan’s Bay Wow! We are driving away from spending a super interesting night at our friend, Louis Magwa. Louis lives in Transkei, about a kilometre from the magnificent Magwa Falls… What a feeling of pure serenity! Louis has been carving his own eccentric way of life […]

by Queen of Hearts So…this exciting trip started on Sunday the 30th of July. I was planning on writing about this holiday trip in one article, but alas, I realize that it would be much too long, because we were superblessed to extend this trip for more than a month. So here goes ‘Part 1’

The Naked Barista So, after a beautiful weekend looking after Sam, we left early this morning from Pretoria , lock, stock and Barrel and arrived in Witrivier at Bundu Lodge. Driving out of the city of Pretoria, we were very soon…very suddenly…pleasantly surprised with the serene beauty of Schoemanskloof pass. It was a winter warm day arriving at our

Rekindle Bike Trip – The Naked Barista So…eventually we hit the tarmac around 12 on our “Rekindle” adventure. Let’s just start from the beginning… why “Rekindle”? Well,…I found a small piece of wood carving this morning in my room with the word “Rekindle” written on it…and I believe in signs… We have been together 22

…the Naked Barista Still in Pretoria and we were superblessed as we had a lovely weekend with Juan (son) before he took an airplane back to Palma. He arrived in Pretoria very tired on Friday, as he was in Cape Town for a week only, sorting out a Visa and obviously had to see many friends. We decided

Queen of Hearts…                            I have felt like sharing our experience for a while now… … how we as very conservative humans got into ‘trance’ and this ‘new age’ of living I suppose… (Cannot believe I just used the words ‘new age’… as

The Naked Barista… So my website was down for three months while I was trying to transfer to South African hosts.  We had so many challenges with this shift, but I am so happy to be back on my site and writing.  Crazy to see how much we have done in just three months. I love my life…

So… a few weeks ago we had to say goodbye to our beautiful border collie, Max who we were superblessed to have with us for sixteen years. What a privilege to have been called the owners of not only Max, but also his Mom and his Dad. Hitler, his dad, we bought even before we got married.  We were superblessed with

…by The Naked Barista… Pretoria is fast becoming home to us. Oops!!! I cannot believe that I just wrote that… I have to admit that we were only motivated by the jobs to come and stay here for such a long period of time… but now… after being here for nearly two months, it is

…by the Naked Barista…  Part 2… Our awesome friends, Camel and Aneta stays in Rooihuiskraal and the first chance we got, we headed over for some quality time. As I am still recovering from an illness, their home was the perfect place for us to be.  (more about the illness in my article ‘Get into the flow and