Around the world in 7 days.. Day 4.. South Africa

This day has been emotional! We went home.. back to South Africa!

My Mr is from South Africa and we moved there in 2013, and lived there until 2016.. Our Daisy was born there, on our farm, with no medical intervention, just Matt and me! It was magical!

I have many many fond memories of SA, and it was nice to talk a walk down memory lane!

For Lunch we had Vetkoek (pronounced Fet-Cook, means Fat Cake 🤣) .. It is basically a savoury doughnut, or deep fried bread rolls! They are delicious, and if you get a chance to try them.. you must! (Recipe.. make white bread dough, separate into roll size balls, deep fry until medium brown! Easy peasy!) We served it with mince, cheese and apricot jam.. It went down a storm! Like it always does when I make it! It always reminds me of visiting my mom in law, and makes me miss SA lots!

After lunch we put some green felt down, did a quick hunt of the house for any African animals we could find, and made our very own African Savannah!

We also did some language learning today! Did you know South Africa has 11 official languages? Here are my munchkins saying “hello” to you, in all 11 of them!.. enjoy 😊

For dinner we had my Mr’s number one dinner.. A Braai.. or to us Englishfolk.. A BBQ.. South Africans love to Braai, and most will do it at least once a week! Theres loads of meat, we had Boerewors (a yummy South African beef sausage), pork rashers (thin pork belly slices), steak, corn on the cob, garlic mushrooms and Oumas potato salad. Another recipe coming up, but if you try anything, try this potato salad recipe.. I promise you, it’s amazing.. potatoes, diced raw onion, diced cooked bacon, mayonnaise, condensed milk, salt & pepper.. some people also put chopped boiled egg in, but I prefer it without.

I am not exaggerating at all, but the kids were literally silent for around 20 minutes! Not a peep! They absolutely love this dinner and are all true Saffas!!

After dinner we did a virtual game drive and saw Giraffe, Wildebeest and Cape Buffalo and played on the African bongo drums.

Daisy and me also had a go at making Zulu bead jewellery.. it was very fiddly and required alot of patience (of which I had alot more than daisy 🤣) but we loved it! I am definitely going to have a proper go at this when our world tour is over! Here is the bracelet we made 😊

We also had a little evening snack of biltong! We actually make our own now, we have a cool little cupboard that drys the meat! Biltong is like beef jerky.. only a million times better! Biltong never lasts long in this house.. the kids LOVE it!

And lastly, we took our photos! We did the silly poses ready for photoshopping 🤣 But we also picked lots of our own photos from when we lived there as the backdrops.. some are from our farm, our little peace of heaven on earth! And others are from our travels around SA.. We also loved going through the old photos and showing the children all the places we went! Anyway.. I hope you enjoy these.. if you enjoy reading my blog and sharing in our adventure, I’d love it if you would share my posts. 😊