Coffee bay to Durban

Wow what a drive, we left the hotel in Coffee bay at 8am and headed to Mtata, this took 2hrs,
I told the tour leader that there are really bad road works if we go via Kockstad, so thankfully we chose to go via Port St Johns, well to say the least he was pissed as we only got to Port Edward at 4pm and still had not had any lunch.
We still had to go to Oribi Gorge, so I phoned them and they said the restaurant will be closed but the access to Leopard rock will be open, not ever been there we left at 4:40pm and got there just after 5pm well it was closed and locked up. OOPS was he mad with me. Now we still have a 2hr drive to Durban.

The next morning we left the hotel at 8 am and did a short city tour with a visit to the spice market at the Victoria market, he then pulled me one side and blasted me for not stopping at the city hall, so I urned around and said if you would tell me what your plans are and speak to me before tour starts as we agreed before we started this would not have happened. So i took him back and said we have a 2 and a half hour trip to get to Shakaland the longer you take hear the less chance we have to make the time. His response was last year we did it, my answer to him was sure but you used a bus company with good buses not a cheap hand me down bus company. with in 8 minuets they were all back on the bus. (the fact that the driver has never been out of Cape Town and i have to tell him his every move)
We made it with 15 minuets to spare and all busting for toilet.
the rest of the day he was as sweet as candy, all guests are upset with him and keep coming to me and thanking me for all i have done for them, even asking me to join them for a drink and not him.

Well tomorrow we all go on the boat cruise and then I offered to stay behind as 12 guests are not going to Hlehluwe, when others heard i was staying they also cancelled.

Such a different trip but what a learning curve  ITS STILL GOOD FUN