Slowly getting into my travelling alter-ego after making our first hostel reservations for the upcoming trip.

Seems like much of the backpacking scene has been moving towards the e-world since our last travel (That was before starting on kids, so that's a rough +6y ago). A good technique seems to be to snip some pointers from here:

• http://www.hostelworld.com/
• http://bookhostels.com/

and then just narrow them to some more direct location through our friend. Which isn't really easy I have to say, seems like international booking service sites have flooded google enough to virtually remove the local web-presence of the individual hostels. Hinting with an additional site:.co.za helps a bit.

Some other links that might come in handy next weeks:

• http://www.hotelguide.co.za/
• http://www.krugerpark.co.za/
• AA Travel in .za

For my dear readers over here: dunno how much online time I'll have the coming weeks so no real promises on the frequency of updates here. Just check every now and then...

Tomorow is unplugging day: unsubscribing from the apache mailing lists... still have to think about some smart measurments for making sure the good 'ol mailbox doesn't just break by leaving it just as is during holiday time...