Today we went back to the horse farm we could not get in to yesterday. What an amazing place. Everything was meticulously designed.
Beautiful indigenous gardens leading up to the restaurant, art gallery and wine tasting.
Some of the best art in the country. And some of best wines we tasted in a while.
What a great start to the morning!
The most fun and interesting farm stall next to the road to Stellenbosch.
The story goes that one of the workers started making scarecrows with fun human figures, and over time became more creative.
This of course brought the tourists and now, many years later, it is quite the attraction next to the road!
http://www.zetler.co.za/mooiberge.html
We had lunch at the mall since we had to do some shopping afterwards. Keep on forgetting to take pictures in the mall, but I will. Promise!
We had dinner at wonderful people, friends of the parents, living in Strand. They have a great condo with an amazing view of False Bay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Bay
First stop this morning was, of course, champahne. We stopped at J C LeRoux that makes sparkling wine in the French Champagne method.
Originally we were told that it was going to be a Champagne and Nougat tasting, but they discontinued that and all we got was Champagne.
It was still a little early for lunch, so we took a little side tour to Clos Molverne.
Beautiful place with great wines.
While we were thee it started pouring rain so it was nice sitting next to the glass windows looking out over the vineyard in the rain.
We had lunch at Middelvlei. A wonderful rustic wine farm. The fact that it was raining and there was a roaring fire place just added to the charm.
And then there were our new bestest friends, at least as long as we had food… Grappa and Merlot.
After lunch we went back to the town of Stellenbosch proper and went up the side if the mountain to a wine farm owned by the world famous golfer Ernie Els.
The views were breathtaking!
And the wines even better!
We left early this morning to head up to Johannesburg. This is the start of our trip to Kruger, the game parks up north.
The plane was like flying to Orlando, kids everywhere!
Then we had to drive for a while to get to Petro’s house. It was a long and interesting drive. Petro kept telling Kenn: this is what the real Africa looks like!
We finally made it!
After many years of seeing on Facebook about the “Friday Evening on the Stoep”, we are finally part of it!
We had an amazing afternoon with Petro exchanging travel stories, and then the rest of the gang showed up and we had one of those legendary evenings on the stoep.
La Vie est Belle!!
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