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Arrived in the small village of Franschhoek yesterday. It’s a beatiful, charming little village tucked into a valley and surrounded by mountains on three sides. Today we ventured out to three of the local vineyards for some wine tastings. Many of these vineyards have been here since the late 1600’s. Quite amazing the history.
We enjoyed a wonderful cheese plate for lunch at one of the vineyards (Dieu Donee’) that had a beautiful view of the valley. Perfect!! The wine master of this vineyard is also opening a brew pub and has traveled to Austria to perfect the brewing. We’re just here one year to early – too bad for Scott and he has to once again go for the Castle lager, the beer of choice in South Africa.
The joy of it all is that it’s fall here and pretty quiet so it’s almost as if we have the place all to ourselves. Unfortunately, we’ll miss the cheese festival that is scheduled for next weekend. Would have loved that as well. We then enjoyed our afternoon stroll along the main road with quaint shops and old dutch buildings.
Our dinner yet again was quite something. We headed to Reubens – the “must go to” place in the village. We enjoyed our rib eye steak and rack of lamb dinners (yeah, yeah – can get that at home we know – but we have already had the ostrich and springbok so we’re good).
On the way to dinner we came upon a demonstration from the people living in a township outside of the city that have had their electricity turned off. It seems that the growth of the village has outpaced the supply so this particular township has had it’s electricity turned off because they have been taking it from the township below it. It’s difficult to see (as it was in Cape Town) the extremes between those that have and those that have not.
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