Today was race day again. I took part in the 40km mountain bike race. (My 2nd Mountain bike race) The race was named "Trail to Ales" as this event was organised by a small local craft brewery.

Today, I was working at one of our railway depots, which at least involved quite a bit of walking. Our pasenger rail service company needs our help with some maintenance issues, one of the issues was for

This mornng early (7:00) I went on a 55km Mountain Bike Ride, with a friend of mine. Our average speed was 20 km/h and our elevation was 567m. This was my longest ride thus far. Next saturday, I am planning

Today was quite an active day at work. Most of my steps were made up from walking in shunting yards, as I work for the South African Railways. We are busy refurbishing some of the yards and took some

Today, I was working from home, and after work, I went to gym. At the gym, I did 45 minutes on the upright bike, and 15 minutes on the cross-trainer. In total I burnt 684 calories, I am currently training

Pixie Dust Weissbier, by Darling Brew. The other day, I wrote a post where we were at Darling Brew in Clarence, now I am back in Pretoria, and I were again sipping on some Darling Brew Beer, in this case

Homebrew Stout. I recently brewed a homebrew stout, if I say recently, it is some time ago, as I fermented the brew for two weeks and then bottle aged it for another 3 weeks, before it was ready for drinking.

Most of the day, I spent working at the office, without much activity. After work I went to the gym, where I trained on the bike. With me that just started to ride Mountain Bikes, I am concentrating to

Convertible Golf GTi Mark 1 Another interesting car that I saw while in Clarence, was this Mark 1, Golf GTi, Convertible. This is car that we did not have many off in South Africa, and even the normal

As I mentioned in a previous, post, I was preparing for my first ever mountain bike race, and that at age 60, putting me in the Grand Master catogory. The race went very well. I did the 40km, in a time

Market on town Square: Clarence We were in the tiny town of Clarence, with the Beetle Maniacs club, with our old classic VW's. While we were there, they also had a market on the town square, how many towns

I am currently preparing for my first MTB race, which will take place on Saturday. I entered for the 40km event and will take part as Grand Master, due to my age, of 60 years. The inserted photo is of

Hippie Party at Clarence Backpackers If you have read a few of my previous post, you will remember that, I was on a classic VW road trip to Clarence, and in line with the classic VW life we had a Hippie

Pickled Pig Porter and Pizza. After our visit to the Clarence Brewery, it was time for some dinner. The restaurant we visited, had some Beers from The Nottingham Brewing Company, which happens to be the

Clarence Brewery in Clarence. A few days ago I wrote about our trip to Clarence and I also mentioned, that I could not get a Beer at the Clarence Brewery, due to it being packed. Later on the evening we

I recently started to ride a Mountain bike, in total I did 4 rides on the MTB, two of which was on my newly bought bike. I bought a near bottom of the range hard tail. It does have front shocks, shimano

Our Bed and Breakfast in Clarence: Willow Manor On our trip to Clarence we stayed at Willow Manor , we loved our stay at this very nice bed and breakfast. The room was very nice, with a small kitchenette

Darling Brew Beer in Clarence. After a long trip in our classic cars, Classic Car Road Trip it was time to relax a bit, and what better way than to have a nice ice cold craft beer. In this case it was

Classic Car Road Trip to Clarence. I am starting today's post with the same photo, I ended yesterday's post, as this is where our 1000km road trip from Pretoria to Clarence started. It was early on a cold

Car issues before trip to Clarence. I have been quite lazy to write posts lately, but hopefully, this has changed now. The trip I am writing about already took place in mid June. My brother and I and our