ON THE EDGE OF THE HANTAM KAROO

If you want to see a packed caravan park, just be anywhere within 100 kilometres of Calvinia when the Vleisfees is on and it’s flower season in Namaqualand.

I was lucky to be squeezed in at Vanrhynsdorp Caravan Park, when on short notice I decided to take the “family” for a trip up the West Coast all the way to Nieuwoudtville: the plan being to get a look at the incredible flowers that were blooming for 2018.

If you are planning to drive way more than 1 000 kilometres, and to visit two caravan parks in one weekend, there’s no better way to do it than in a motorhome. And, if it’s a brand new 2018-edition of the Discoverer 4 from Motorhome-World, you’re in for a real treat.

OH DARLING

I had collected the Discoverer from Motorhome-World’s factory in Atlantis earlier in the week, so when I slipped off early from work at around lunchtime on Friday, all I had to do was pick up my wife and our two dogs at our home in Observatory, and get out of the city before the weekend traffic started piling up.

It had been a while since I’d travelled the West Coast, so I decided