Today is our last day with Dave and Michelle. We spent it on a wine tour. Visiting Winelands (that is what the brochure called it dad – not a spelling mistake) of the Cape is apparently something one must do when holidaying here. It probably helps to like wine.
It was quite cloudy in the morning so you couldn’t really see the mountains that me the landscape so picturesque. The Hugonoughts escaping France where given land here by the Dutch and told to utilise their grape growing skills. We can testify that they succeeded. It was really interesting to see old Dutch farmhouses with grape vines growing and mountains towering overhead. This is not a scene you see in Holland. The wineries we visited were KWV in Paarl (Dutch for pearl after a mountain that looks like a black pearl after rain. We wouldn’t know – couldn’t see the mountain through the fog, nor had it rained), L’Ormarine in the Franschenoek Valley, Bracksberg and Vrede En Lust (Peace and Passion).
At 9.00pm we bade farewell to Dave, Michelle, Nick and Lucretia. Now Jon and I are all on our own (we will have to actually talk to each other) about to embark on the next stage of our journey.
It was quite cloudy in the morning so you couldn’t really see the mountains that me the landscape so picturesque. The Hugonoughts escaping France where given land here by the Dutch and told to utilise their grape growing skills. We can testify that they succeeded. It was really interesting to see old Dutch farmhouses with grape vines growing and mountains towering overhead. This is not a scene you see in Holland. The wineries we visited were KWV in Paarl (Dutch for pearl after a mountain that looks like a black pearl after rain. We wouldn’t know – couldn’t see the mountain through the fog, nor had it rained), L’Ormarine in the Franschenoek Valley, Bracksberg and Vrede En Lust (Peace and Passion).
At 9.00pm we bade farewell to Dave, Michelle, Nick and Lucretia. Now Jon and I are all on our own (we will have to actually talk to each other) about to embark on the next stage of our journey.
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