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Our last fuel stop was Middelburg, and<br />
I would be wise to listen to a student in my<br />
search for rusks, Michelle knew just where<br />
to shop for rusks, and Debbie proved this<br />
by popping into a coffee shop across the<br />
road from the gas station, one just HAS<br />
to have proper boere rusks with coffee for<br />
breakfast....our last stretch included a 30km<br />
dirt road to Ganora Lodge, now while the XR<br />
1000 has no pretences of being a dual sport<br />
bike, it coped very well, 17” front wheel, firm<br />
suspension and all, the dirt road was in fairly<br />
good condition, the XR coped a lot better<br />
than I thought it would, speedshifters are<br />
great fun even on dirt.<br />
We arrived late afternoon at our venue,<br />
Ganora Lodge, www.ganora.co.za, most<br />
people had arrived before us, some serious<br />
chilling out was being done...Ganora<br />
Lodge is a guest lodge/farm near to Nieu<br />
Bethesda, run by Hester and JP, which<br />
offers all types of accommodation, self<br />
catering 6 sleeper cottage, (which I had),<br />
catered 2 sleeper accommodation, rough<br />
and ready barn for groups, camping, you<br />
name it, Ganora caters for all. That night<br />
we all enjoyed a festive braai, meeting new<br />
faces and catching up with old friends,<br />
unwinding from the hectic life most of us<br />
endure. There is an onsite honesty bar,<br />
awesome food, and very attentive hosts;<br />
one cannot fault Ganora Lodge...<br />
Saturday morning after breakfast, those<br />
that had not gone off to explore the dirt<br />
routes in the area, headed to Nieu Bethesda,<br />
a town where time seems to have frozen<br />
about 40 years ago, the main highlight being<br />
the Owl House, where Helen Martins lived<br />
for many years, creating various sculptures<br />
of owls, camels, people, a place you just<br />
have to visit, it would take pages to highlight<br />
the aspects of this museum, Google it for<br />
more info...thereafter we visited the Fossil<br />
Museum, well worth a visit, then off to the<br />
Brewery on outskirts of town, a chill zone<br />
of note, in fact I was so relaxed by then the<br />
ride back to Ganora Lodge became quite an<br />
arduous task, but once back at the lodge all<br />
was well. After the mandatory group photo<br />
we sat around sharing the day’s experiences,<br />
64 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016<br />
<strong>1601</strong> <strong>DT</strong> Kurt adv.indd 64 2015/12/16 9:47 AM
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