We arrived in Willowmore on Saturday the 23rd after a lot of kilometers (one stops counting after a while) and the Nuwekloof Pass, out of the dreaded Baviaanskloof. For a change we arrived in daylight. Wonderful accommodation at 'The Willows' great food, especially the 'plaasbotter' for which one would happily die - and would quite soon, if one were to eat as much as one would like.
The next day, Easter Sunday, we covered 96 flattish kilometers to the farm Rondawel, via a hamlet called Vondeling. This was another long day, mainly because of a fresh headwind as the cold front currently bringing rain to Cape Town moves East. We enjoyed excellent hospitality from the Marincowitz family, with father Chris and son Gerhard standing in for Elna.
We have just arrived in Prince Albert, where we are staying in a splendid Guest House called Dennehof. If you want to be spoilt, this is the place to come. Play your cards right and you don't even have to ride your bike 410 kilometers - our total so far - to get here. If you come from Cape Town via the N1 and Prince Albert road, it is about 410 km by car... And about five days quicker.
Tomorrow, 26th April, we enter Gamkaskloof - a.k.a. Die Hel. Internet and cell phone silence descend again and we next surface at a place called Rouxpos, near Vleiland on Freedom Day, the 27th.
Wish us good knees...
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