Residence Klein Oliphants Hoek Franschhoek
14 Akademie Street Franschhoek, Western Cape, 7690, South Africa
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Driving the Peninsula and Visiting the Winelands
Yesterday (Wednesday), we checked out of the Sweet Ocean View guest house and began the Garden Route driving portion of our trip. We started early...leaving the house before sunrise and arriving in Simon's Town before 9am. Mike did a great job of driving on the left side of the road - and our GPS system is an invaluable tool.
Upon arrival …
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It Just Keeps Getting Better!!
... South African eaterie but I just couldnt avoid the 500g T-Bone steak which was duly polished off. Linda had Sprinbok and a pasta dish.
This morning we went to another vineyard La Petit Dauphine for a coffee to chill for a while. We then strolled up through Franschoek which has real character. Lunch under the vines followed at the Moreson Vineyard where ...
Spring Break: African Style
... thing such as “start to break when you get to the tree branch”. Hahah no problem, there’s only about 6 million tree branches around us!
It was a very busy week and was draining in just about every way. Lots of adventures and lots of fun overall, and a lot that I didn’t manage to fit into this entry. And now it’s back to homework, errands, and getting ready for another school week. I have 2 presentations and a paper due this coming ...
Day 40: Township tour
... we are walking around the town for 30 minutes, we had about 20 children around us.
At one stage, I was holding my hands with 3 kids on each hand…!
They are so charming, some of them are very cuddly and they love pictures taken.
All of them were so cute but one of the reasons they followed us was sweets.
Jenny went into one of the shops and bought 100 sweets.
The children queued in one line and Jenny gave one sweet to each chid.
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Last day of holiday - lets go wine tasting :-)
... all saying, which was easy really with comments like "I wonder if he’ll give me a full glass of the Shiraz” (from Kate) and Jenny saying “ooohhhh no – I don’t like that....” as soon as she put some Red Bordeaux in her mouth.
We finished there, having had a chat with Franz about him having been to London, when he worked in Oxfordshire on a farm for a while and worked for ‘Les someone’ who held the world record for the ...


