Traveling with an infant is no picnic...unless you're having a picnic [GALLERY] #mytimeinclarens

There's a time for everything, wise king Solomon says in the Bible book that bears his name. For us, March was the time for us to take Alice on her first holiday. Clarens was the destination; a small and wonderfully picturesque town in the Free State that borders Lesotho. Nestled into the Maluti mountain range and home to the Golden Gate National Park, it really is one of those phenomenal places that every South African should visit.

Just look at it. I mean.

But it's a six-hour drive from Durban -- or, at least, it is when you're traveling with a three-month-old. And when it's for a Land Rover weekend [yep, they're called Landy Fests, and they're an actual thing -- and they're pretty great] on a dusty game farm you begin to see just what it was we'd gotten ourselves in for.

Were we being ambitious? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely.

I wrote a travel piece about the experience. It went like this:

Remember that really cute advert in which the kid talks to his dog while chomping a biscuit? He twists it, licks it, dunks it and as he takes a bite says to his beloved hound: ''Mom says chocolate isn't good for dogs, but you can have the rest of my milk."

My recent weekend in Clarens was a version of this advert. It didn't involve a dog, a chocolate-flavoured biscuit or milk - but it did involve finding a cunning way to work around things that weren't particularly good for us. Let me explain.

If you're thinking about taking your little one of a long road trip, you might want to read the rest of the piece here [can't post the full piece because it was published on my company's online platforms]: How to survive a road trip with an infant 

 Here are some of the pics from the weekend:

Special thanks to Rebellie Game Farm and to Land Rover Hillcrest for sponsoring the accommodation and the Discovery 4 we used for the weekend. The piece was commissioned by the Times Media Group.