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Stellenbosch Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Stellenbosch, South Africa
Clubbing in my Birki's
... our way to "Catwalk" in Stellenbosch. Upstairs was all Afrikaans music which made zero sense to me but hey when in Rome (...or South Africa in this case). Then downstairs was all dub-step (NOOOOOO!) music for the night and the DJ kinda sucked- but a fun ...
Wine and Cheese Club
Today we went on a wine tour to the Stellenbosch wine region just outside Cape Town. It was a lovely day and we learnt about the process of wine making, I was surprised it only takes 21 days to make a white wine (Chardonnays take longer as they are oaked ...
Last Days of the Program
... day on the 7th. I slept until I was rested, it was so wonderful!! Then was finally proven that they have turkey sandwiches in South Africa!! and this wasn't just any turkey sandwich, it had fruit on it, hummus, sprouts AND cheese. Since it was our last ...
Follow the Grapes.. find Bill :)
... the flight is within 12 hours I cannot make any changes online and need to call. Well working off of my pre-paid SIM card for South Africa which has $40 of time on it.. but I am allowed to use the phone on this guys desk so I don't have to get into ...
6 days in the Hottentots Holland mountains
As a student living in the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, the mountains quickly become a part of everyday life. The mountains that create the mouth of the Jonkershoek valley are about a 10 - 15 minute jog away from town. I have soccer training at the ...
Don´t drink and drive bicycle
... good dinner. If you are interested of winetasting, take the advantage of going by your own without any timetable of a organised tour. It´s cheaper and more relaxed. And from Stellenbosch it is definitely not a far way as south africans may believe. ...
Winelands good, Wine BAD
... point and we were all checked it by 10 o'clock. We quickly got changed and went out to explore as we only had one day in Stellenbosch. A quick stop at the visitors centre and we had our bikes for the day and a map of all the hundreds of winery's we could ...
Wine Country Tour
... , Mushroom Anise and it was delicious; others tried the venison, lamb and ostrich. After lunch it was onward to Stellenbosch and Delaire Graff Wine Estate, an opulent and pretentious property owned by the "House of Graff" international diamond merchant. ...
Chips away
Cars+ us = curse. Leaving Rustenberg along the motorway, we hear a thunk as the other one overtakes and a big dumper lorry passes us going in the other direction. Peering at the windscreen we see nothing and figure it whatever it was must have landed on ...
Wine tasting
I had an amazing night last night and a great day today wine tasting. The wine country was so beautiful, i wish you all could come down and see what i saw today. I got a little hammered so i really need to take a nap. Just wanted to say hello to ...
Rain, Rain, Go Away
... were top notch and we even booked more pampering for tomorrow. "Why not", right? Tomorrow is another day filled with South African wine, segway tours, tastings, and pampering. We’re really just relaxing at a South African vineyard until we depart ...
Wine, firplaces & getting rubbed head to toe
... Ma-moushe cafe where I ended up chatting to John. A HUGELY interesting and knowledgeable guy who told me about how Stellenbosch is the intellectual foothold of Apartheid, how it all started here and how the liberal Afrikaans who started the uprising also ...
Wine, cheese, wine, wine, coffee, wine & some wine
Day 1 in Stellenbosch we arrived at about 930am. By 1030 we were on a wine tour. That only left us 1 hour to have champagne breakfast.. Wine tour was good, though we must admit by the fourth vineyard all the wines started to taste a bit the same. Not ...
Wine, finally...
... swiftly flowing Orange River. With only a couple of nights of camping left, we moved on to Stellenbosch, happily nestled in the middle of South Africa's winelands. An educational wine-tasting tour was, of course, a must and we managed to ...
Afrikaans Culture
Since I have become good friends with an Afrikaaner, Jenine, I have been learning a lot about the culture here! For example, when homeless people start talking to us I know what swear words they are using (and some are so bad I've been told you wouldn't ...
3 days to go!
Nov 2nd 2010 – Tuesday The day started with a motor coach tour of Table Mountain, which is certainly the highlight of a trip to South Africa. We went up on the Gondola (mom stayed and had a coffee at the base) and we wandered around the top, which ...
The wine - Stellenbosh
... which is large and quite pretty, a normal town really. Franschoek was nice, quite touristy but lovely situated in between the mountains. Stellenbosch the town. We stayed in the Albarosa GH. Perfectly close to the centre so we did not need to take the ...
Weinregion Südafrika
... Schokoladen wurden angeblich ;) perfekt auf die Weine zugeschnitten. Aber uns hats einfach geschmeckt, ;) Und für 2 Euro für eine Weinprobe auch echt super! :) Stellenbosch ist sehenswert, aber wir hatten auch sehr viel Glück mit dem ...
Study Abroad in South Africa
I left the U.S. on July 10, 2009 to study in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It is now November 14 and I am preparing to backpack across several countries and decided I needed a blog. The past semester has been difficult yet rewarding. I was ...
the morning after!!!
where do i even begin!!!dinner was absolutely 110% worth every minute!!!it has by far won my vote for the best steak i have ever tasted in my life...but more than the steak, the wine was divine...what better way to start the evening off...three bottles i ...
Stellenbosch
... Hugo need not have worried, we were to be able to take our wine very well and drink for both England and South Africa combined and stumble back to the bus my ourselves!!! The winelands is a region where fertile valleys nestle between dramatic mountains, ...
Stellenbosch
... stop of the day was Hillcrest orchard and berry farm shop at 9am. We had morning coffee here with fantastic views of Stellenbosch followed by a walk around the farm. Following the walk, i purchased their own very delectable berry liquer so we could make ...
Raise your glass!
... darf man bei einem zweitägigen Aufenthalt in der Weinmetropole Südafrikas (200 Weingüter allein in Stellenbosch) nicht verpassen, selbst einer Weinverkostung beizuwohnen. So starteten neun Personen einer insgesamt sehr deutschlastigen Gruppe mitsamt ...
Wine Tasting and Frat Parties
... very easily, I decided to make my way to Stellenbosch, a rather laid back city just an hour away from Cape Town. Stellenbosch is both famous for its 40+ vineyards and winetasting as well as its university, where the new semester had just started and ...
Dag 18 // Wijnproeven
... 't kort: via Paarl (Fairview; kaas- en wijn proeven), naar Franschoek (Backsberg; wijn, brandy en chocolade proeven), naar Stellenbosch (Beyerskloof; wijn proeven en lunch) en nog eens Stellenbosch (Villiera; wijn en champagne proeven en bezoek aan ...
Stellenbosch - cheetahs at Spier!
... :-). These are likely to be the last ones until we get home as we start our trip from Zimbabwe to Kenya tomorrow. Stellenbosch is an hour East of Cape Town and is one of the many wine regions around here. We went to Spier ...