Saturday 14 January 2012

Day 438 South Africa 14/01/2012, Knysna – Milkwood Farm, George. 49.58miles/80.33km, 5hr05minutes, Av 9.7mph.

We were presented with a little bit of everything along the road today. The overcast weather that we woke to was a relief after the heat of the last few days. As we approached the town of Sedgefield it even started to rain, which was nice until it started to get heavier. By the time we had dived into a local supermarket it had almost stopped, so we carried on to Sedgefield's farmers market to have a second breakfast.

Sufficiently full of Mexican wraps and hot dogs, we rejoined the road and had a rolling but brisk ride to the town of Wilderness. Here we were suddenly riding along the sea, watching a lone para-glider come in to land on the beach. The weather was still pretty overcast, but we had a beautiful view along the beach as we started to climb out of the town. In fact this was to be the last big climb along our route to George.

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Having made it to the top, we continued along the N2 past George. Eventually turning off towards the airport, where we helpfully picked up a headwind. See, I mentioned that we had a bit of everything, the sun even started to push through the clouds. Pressing on, we found the turn off towards the farm and set off down the gravel road. I say we found the turn off, in truth I was hopelessly lost and Debs was the one who, once out of the wind, led the way at breakneck speed; this being a relative term when it come to a bicycle of course!

Having made good time, we arrived at the farm by about 2:30pm and were greeted by Georgie and baby Tom. A baby who is not quite as happy as we remembered at Christmas. It seems teething has turned him into a bit of a grump!

We soon got cleaned up and settled in our room, we aren't camping this time.When Phil arrived back from milking we enjoyed a nice meal, an evening of chatting and a few glasses of beer/wine.

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It had been a pretty long day so we turned in early. We will be staying for a few days so will hopefully get to have a look round the area, before we head onwards down the coast.

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