Food, Frolicks, Fires & Fine Company
27 Feb - 1 Mar 2026
A weekend to unplug, unwind, and gently shake the dust out of your soul.
Calm Your Trollie is a hosted weekend escape in the mountains at the beautiful McBains Forest Cabins in Bainskloof. This is a chance to step into slow mornings, good food, river swims, and fireside nonsense.
We’re inviting a small group of our favourite humans to book a room or cabin for the weekend and let us take care of the rest:
👉 two meals a day 👉 evening entertainment & hangs 👉 zero pressure, maximum vibes
This weekend away is a fundraiser to help us bring our Afrikaburn Artwork to life. We are going to build a giant trollie in the desert and your assistance would mean a hellovalot to us. Please help us bring our vision to life?
Come alone, with fam, with a lover, with a mate... just come as you are!
🍳 What’s Included
Your weekend booking includes:
- 🛏 Accommodation at McBains (room or cabin, depending on what you choose)
- 🍳 Breakfast & dinner both days (we cook, you chill)
- 🔥 Night-time hangs, fireside stories, music, and general skollie behaviour
- 🌲 Full access to forest walks, river dips, and peak-level loafing
Lunches are on your own mission: leftovers, picnic, snooze, swim, snacks, repeat.
🌈 The Vibe
This is not a party weekend. It’s not a silent retreat either.
It’s that sweet middle space where:
- mornings are slow and soft
- afternoons are for rivers, naps, and wandering
- evenings are for food, laughter, music, and maybe a little mischief
Think: Forest holiday meets backyard braai meets tiny festival energy... but everyone actually gets to sleep.
🏡 Accommodation & Cost
Guests can choose between rooms or cabins at McBains, depending on availability.
💸 Cost: R2000 per person for the weekend This includes:
- accommodation
- 2 meals per day
- all hosted activities & evening entertainment
Once you tell us what you’d like to book, we’ll confirm availability and pricing with you directly.
🛒 About The Trollie
The Skollie Trollie is a six-metre-tall wooden monument to modern madness. A bright yellow cathedral of consumption, built to be climbed, played on, and ultimately burned. Crafted from solid structural timber and screws (because capitalism always involves a bit of screwing), it gleams in oxide yellow - a golden idol to everything we buy, need, and discard. Unlike your average shopping cart, this one won’t roll away. It stands still: a stationary spectacle in the desert, inviting Burners to clamber, lounge, and laugh at the absurdity of it all. The Trollie transforms a tool of commodification into a playground of irony and joy. A space for connection rather than consumption. As dusk falls and the flames rise, the Skollie Trollie meets its poetic end - a blaze of anti-commodified liberation. Through play, performance, and fire, it asks: what happens when we stop shopping and start sharing? A reminder that even symbols of capitalism can burn beautifully, leaving nothing behind but laughter, dust and hopefully a new way of seeing value.
How to Book / Join
This is a small, personally-invited gathering, so bookings will be handled directly. If you’d like to join us: 👉 Reply to your invite 👉 Drop us an email to check availability 👉 We’ll confirm your room/cabin and send payment details Once you’re in, you’re in. Then all you have to do is show up and calm your trollie.
Contact information
If you would like to book your spot or have any extra questions please get hold of us via email with the subject line "Calm Your Trollie".
We look forward to seeing you at the event! Proof of absolute lekker vibes below 👇
Credits:
Skollie Trollie 2026