Hotel Description
The original cottage has since been considerably extended to accommodate guests in comfort and style, and since hosts Tilla and Leon Nell have moved in, is home yet again of an author of five travel books.After purchasing Pikkie Cottage Bed and Breakfast, owners Gideon and Ilse Scheepers, who have business interests in Qatar, asked relatives Tilla and Leon Nell to manage their establishment.
This came quite naturally, for Tilla worked as a tourist officer in Etosha National Park, Namibia, worked for nature conservation in Mpumalanga and was co-owner of a successful pub in Knysna and co-guide for the Nell’s tour guide business in the Garden Route and Little Karoo. She has travelled and worked widely across southern Africa, helped Leon with research while he was working on his travel books and her great love for botany led her to discovering a new fire lily species, Cyrtanthus aureolinus, on the northern slopes of the Swartberg in the Great Karoo in February 2005.
Leon worked as a tourist officer in Etosha National Park and as a nature conservator in Mpumalanga before moving to Knysna, where he owned a successful pub for seven years. In 2003 his first travel book, the highly acclaimed The Garden Route and Little Karoo (Book of the Month, Yorkshire Horticultural Society, UK, January 2004) was published, and he moved to De Rust to concentrate on more travel books. In 2005 he completed two visitor’s guides – one on Knysna and the other on Oudtshoorn, before completing The Great Karoo in 2008 (Book of the Year, Struik Random House Publishers) – all published by Struik and/or Struik Random House Publishers, one of the most prestigious publishing houses in the southern hemisphere. In 2011 he wrote Die Oervlakte – Primordial Plains and has spent the last few years writing more than 300 articles for local papers and national magazines such as Country Life and Vrouekeur. He does all the photography for his coffee table books and magazines and is currently working on another coffee table book about the West Coast.
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Unit Amenities
- Satelite TV
- Bedroom
- Lounge
- Garden
- Grounds
- Linen
- Towels
- Kitchen
- Balcony
- Terrace
- Sun Loungers
- Sculery
- En-Suite
- Dining Area
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On/Off Site Amenities
- Beach
- Games
- Horse Back Riding
- Hiking Trails
- 4x4 Trails
- Cycling
- Fishing
- Surfing
- Boat Trips
- Skiing
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Rest assured that at Pikkie Cottage you will enjoy a very relaxing stay in superb accommodation located in Saldanha Bay. The best place on the West Coast!
The land on which this original cottage is situated was sold to the Saldanha Bay Harbour and Railway Company in 1914, and the first residence was completed in 1920, and later sold to Madeline Johnson Murgatroyd (nee Banfield), an author of children's books, acquainting the modern child with ancient African folk lore until she was in her middle eighties.
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