Hello there from a sunny and warm Graaff Reinet. It couldn’t be more different here today than the day we packed up and the morning we left from Stanford.

We packed a 4-metre long trailer with pretty much everything we own while it hailed and rained on the Sunday. The next morning, with a cat in a cage, a dog at Johannes’s feet (I was driving because I have the licence that allows pulling a double axled trailer), we set off through the wind and rain and hail that accompanied us most of the way, on an epic twelve and a half hour drive at 80 km/h to Graaff Reinet.

We were happy to arrive, as you can well imagine.

The next week or so was a jumble of moving in, unpacking, taking the trailer to Craddock. Then followed organising the house build, a quick, small, wooden house project that will see us in our own place by the end of the year!

The image above is the magnificent view of Spandaus Kop from our plot.

There will most definitely be plein air painting workshops offered right here as soon as we are settled in.

And here are a few more photographs from Graaff Reinet and Adendorp from the past few weeks. I’m really lapping up the scenery.