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Just got back from a week at Castleburn resort in the southern Drakensberg, about 25km from Underberg. Nothing much to do up at Castleburn except go for mellow walks and relax doing nothing. If you’re a fly-fisherman (which I’m not) then there’s several lakes to catch fish in.

We drove up via Beaufort West, Kingwilliamstown and then through Transkei. The going was good until the weather turned nasty in the Transkei, with rain, mist, and eventually sunset. Add poor roads and brain-dead drivers and progress could only be slow. In the space of an hour-and-a-half we saw 8 separate accidents, 4 of them involving Eastern Cape government vehicles. The idiots just don’t think to slow down when the roads are wet and visibility is crap.

Castleburn was quite therapeutic. We did a lot of walking, and I took the MTB, although it only got used on the tar road. There was also table tennis, tennis and a pool table.

Have a look at some pics in the photo gallery.