National Braai Day with Janine

Today (meaning Tuesday, September 24th) was Heritage Day in South Africa. It is a national holiday and informally known as National Braai Day, were South Africans braai (make a barbeque)! We were shark diving today and drove on to Wilderness afterwards. We stopped at a private game reserve in Little Brak River, where I would have wanted to go on a horse back safari, if it wasn’t too late in the evening (4:30pm), so they closed.

Arriving in a wonderful backpackers I found in a very resourceful little guidebook called “Coast to Coast”. Christian found it lying around in our house and recommended it, I found the new version of it at the car rental office! It’s pocket sized and has very little to every place you could want to visit, but the few things in there are truly awesome! We arrived at the Beach House Backpackers and met Janine J

We were hungry and a little sick, because the so called “lunch” we had at White Shark Arfica were truly crappy. In busier times the bar serves pizza from a stone oven. But there weren't so many guests and the bar wasn't that busy. So no pizza. Janine, our wonderful host for that evening told us that we should definitely have a South African barbeque (Braai), after all it was National Braai Day!

Sebastian & Janine

She can get the braai started for us and tell us how to braai the South African way. We only had to get what we wanted to put on the grill. That we did: we went to the close by Spar, bought Boerewors and Sirloin Steak. Janine told us to get maize cobs, but we didn't do that, we decided to go without veggies and bought buns (low GI!) instead. Janine provided us with two potatoes spiced à la Janine in foil anyway (thanks!). She showed us how to spice the steak as well - the South African way! By accident she used coconut instead of salt, but that worked just fine! We had the most wonderful and very romantic braai there and a wonderful evening with pool, Savannah for me, beer for Sebastian and wonderful company!