{"id":2962,"date":"2025-08-12T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolbarton.uk\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:04:43","slug":"south-africa-day-5-garden-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolbarton.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/south-africa-day-5-garden-route\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa – Day 5 Garden Route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today Andy and I left the villa to have our own little adventure (leaving Kat, Matt, Ezra and Val to do mundane stuff like swimming with sharks and surfing!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a very long drive on the N2 and the Garden Route to Knysna, through ever changing scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eventually arriving at our accommodation in the Elephant Hide in Knysna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The suite looks out over the lagoon. We went along the Waterfront drive to the Dry Dock restaurant for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we returned our sheets had been turned down for us and the curtains closed. It was very cosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today Andy and I left the villa to have our own little adventure (leaving Kat, Matt, Ezra and Val to do mundane stuff like swimming with sharks and surfing!). We had a very long drive on the N2 and the Garden Route to Knysna, through ever changing scenery. Eventually arriving at our accommodation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,95],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-holidays","category-south-africa","tag-south-africa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t