La Petite Ferme
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Wine Country
We stayed two days and one night in Franschhoek spending most of our time eating food and drinking wine over looking the surrounding area's vineyards.
We had a very delayed departure from Franschhoek due to Tim Henman's prolonged Australian Open semi final match against Novak Djokovic, which Mum needed to see before we left. When it was …
The day I was born!
... a meal. Burke and I chose to do the 8 course paired with wine and Holmes decided to do the 5 course paired with wine. Burke and I had a similar meal in Iceland and the biggest thing about these restaurants is you cannot be picky. You just go with the flow and let them feed you. All the wine was fantastic! The food was excellent too. I will post a pic below of both the 5 and 8 course menu. Keep in mind you don't get to see the menu ...
Franschhoek is baie lekker!
... and just reading in the sun. Titch, the resident jack russell cross dog (although not sure what crossed with, chiuhuahua maybe), was a funny little companion that ate almost anything you gave her, even banana!
Luckily the lodge was an easy 15 minute walk into the village so we were able to explore quite a bit on foot. Needless to say we did our bit and contributed to the local economy, but it was hard to resist the beautiful pottery and art work. We ...
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... program. So he and I headed off to Kayamandi to meet with the principal and one of the teachers and get things underway. After some discussion and Mike and I trying to tactfully offer some pointers (“Do you think the school really wants to spend $650 on hula hoops?”) I suggested that perhaps the classrooms could use some storage space, such as shelves, which could then hold baskets full of toys, crayons, supplies, etc (like many preschool and kindergarten classroom in ...
Heaven on a stick
... full from lunch.
· The news here is full of reports about the striking public servants who are asking for an 8.5% pay increase (plus a R1000 housing allowance). It seems the government is only offering 6.5% Today the news stated that 2 premature babies had died as a result of the strike. Wow!
Mon Aug 23
· Today we headed into Cape Town to visit the Slave Lodge ...
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TravelPod Member ReviewsLa Petite Ferme Franschhoek
“ Very Good ”
Reviewed Jan 3, 2013
Very nice place, although we left two dresses in the room that went missing before we could report it
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