Category: Road Trip
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Easy and pleasant breakfast with Susie and Rich and Ethne and Malcolm, then off to a local school in the rambling, black township about a 20 minute drive from Ethne’s. Ethne as well as Susie and Rick have been working with a school in the township whose pupils are local kids as well as some…
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Laird’s had packed a box breakfast the night before so up, re-packed and out by 7:30. Re-traced yesterday’s steps and beyond to George, the largest town in the area, and reached the George airport by 9:00, and turned in the car. Because we were flying through Jo’burg, we had been advised to have our checked…
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Lots has happened since last posting and I’m writing this two days after the fact but will try to keep the daily diary format intact. First, when we arrived at Lairds Country Estate, we got a phone call from Susie at African Avenue to tell us that she had both good news and bad news;…
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Spotless, perfect day. Early breakfast and on the road by 9:30. Over the last 7 or 8 days have worked out a routine for stuff that we’ll need and stuff that we probably shouldn’t have brought. Luggage is now divided into two piles and lots of auxiliary bags, suitcases, shopping bags and knapsacks. Terrifying to…
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Dinner at Jemima’s which is reviewed as the best restaurant in town. Very good meal; V had a skewer of local lamb chops which were much more flavourful and gamey than the ones that we get at home and I, in spite of the heat, had a braised lamb shank. Very good, but still not…
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Low-key day today. Spent the morning at our guest house catching up trip diary and sorting pictures since this really been the first chance to do this. Drove to a farm for lunch, poked around the countryside then back home. A longish drive tomorrow, 5 or 6 hours so am glad for a day off.
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Up early to take a walk to the Waenhuiskrans Grotto after which the town is named. Arniston is the name of an English ship that shipwrecked in the bay and the town has come to be known by that name in English, but Waenhuiskrans is the Afrikaans name which means a cave big enough to…
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Good breakfast at the Arniston Inn. Inn makes it sound a little grander than it is as it can only take 1 family at a time; very comfortable and large bed-sit area and an upstairs lounge with a door opening on to large veranda. Our hosts, Devina and Ron are a funny, quirky and charming…
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Dinner last night at the French Connection in Franschhoek; perfectly serviceable, but after Bon Vivant it was always going to suffer by comparison. We were actually supposed to have dinner at Jordons Winery and Restaurant, another one of the top rated restaurants in SA and headed up by George Jardine, one of SA’s top chefs.…
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