Another day..............................

 After that journey of the day before, driving anywhere was a no-no the next day, well that was until we discovered that a few of us was out of wine for the night. We drove off to Bergville, which was an experience in itself. It was Monday, it was the 28th of Feb and it was the end f the month and what looked like a payday of sorts to the local folk.  Where ever you looked there were people queuing at ATM's. FNB looked like the preferred bank. Clearly their marketing strategy was the best. We only wanted a few bottles of wine and the odd 6 pack of beers, but we were immediately confused,as there were many booze buying options. We first looked into the one outlet and then moved to the other to compare prices, but the high pitched voice of the Indian lady forced us back to the first option of local African buying . There was even a little kitten on the bottle store to welcome you. Works for me, as I love cats.  Anyway we got good wine at excellent prices. Amazes me that you can get wine in remote areas at good prices and you never see that same wine in Cape Town.    For a short  moment we considered a walk through he town, but cancelled that and headed back to the Drakensberg camp where we were so comfortably situated.
The day was leisurely, to say the least. Reading in the shade, lolling in the pool, drinking tea and later beer and still later filling up the vans with water, all very team based exercises and then just relaxing into making a fire and settling down to braai. Then the thunder started and the odd bit of lightning and then the rain. The meat was cooked in the rain and all fled into their own vans and then the rain stopped. Well versed in thunder storms, we waited  it out and then did out meat with no rain. Before we went to bed the soft rain started and that was the music of the night.
This morning we left before 9 and went to Spioenskop on our way. That might be a very historical sight, but oh boy, was the road a challenge. It was well washed out from the summer rains and it was quite a challenge for the motorhomes, but we all got up the "kop" and down  again in one piece. Not normal driving for our British guests.
We arrived in Dundee, via Ladysmith where we stopped for shopping if needed, a much needed good cup of coffee, a bottle of 2 of wine and a proposed visit to the Siege museum. The town was bussling and there were people everywhere in queues for food in Shoprite, at the ATM for cash and all other need. We settled for the coffee and that was the end of Ladysmith for this trip. We are now comfortably camping in Kwa Rie in Dundee. This is decidedly one of our favourite campsite ever visited. It is like camping in a private place with a lovely dam and ducks and a dog and cats and resident Blesbok.
And so to another night of fire, friendship, wine and good food. It does not get much better than this.Tomorrow morning we are off to do the Battlefields and then it is our last night of the tour, which we spend in Dundee and the next day off to Johannesburg and a night at the Cultural village of Lesebi and then off to Kapama for out guests and back to Cape Town for us.