Travel Archives - Surviving the Madness

Our holiday to The Baths

March 13, 2015

During the December and January holidays while everyone was gallivanting about dieing the summer holiday, I was the poor soul who was working through because our intern’s contract had ended, I didn’t have any family obligations or a kid who gets school holidays and someone had to make sure Parent24 didn’t burn to the ground. So I took 2 weeks off between my birthday and our wedding anniversary. We went away to a place in Citrusdal called The Baths. I’ve been twice ...

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Trailer Park Living at Old Mac Daddy

November 27, 2014

On Sunday morning we packed up and headed out to the Old Mac Daddy luxury trailer park in Elgin. A while back I won a one night stay with Natasha Clark over on Raising Men and the weekend finally arrived. We added an additional night on because I was having a SERIOUS case of Novemberitis and seeing as I’m working through December, I needed a little something to carry me through. After driving through some beautiful farmland, we finally arrived at around 3pm and The Munchkin was fast ...

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Highs and Lows

September 12, 2011

Because for some reason I am incredibly tired today and also lazy, and because I can think of nothing more boring right now than a “…and then we did this, and then we did that” story. I am bullet pointing it up in here: Highlights A weekend without the Gollum birds*! YAY! Beautiful, peaceful scenery (except for the kids – kids are noisy!) and we were surrounded by forests. Awesome hot springs. There are 5 hot pools and they get warmer as you ascend the stairs. The ...

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A Weekend Trip

September 11, 2011

Back from the weekend away to Caledon Spa. I’m tired. Despite having a comfy bed, a lovely room and an awesome hot stone massage, I didn’t sleep well because my pillows were too soft and uncomfortable. So here are some photos in the meantime.