Tulbagh and Ceres

The salads at Rijks Country House were shocking, just a few dead leaves of skinny lettuce and six scrapings of carrot. Where was the chilli on the Thai noodle salad? Bland, bland, bland. Service was excellent

An unplanned detour led us to this vineyard

with peacocks

and a wonderful old barn

We had a lovely tasting at Saronsberg and bought some wine for our cellar

Montpellier: a chapel in the vineyards for weddings, a lovely old Cape Dutch house, willing service and so-so wines

Readers restaurant in Tulbagh, another charming old house, filled with cats, real and decorative, good fresh bread, but our food was disappointing

overdone eland fillet and dry, bland trout

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This one is real

Cat control device?

Frozen chocolate mousse

Tulbagh's main street

The countryside is quite barren and then suddenly you turn a corner and you find a huge cherry orchard

An abundance of cherries at Klondike

Well-used farm machinery

Bains Kloof Pass, between Ceres and Wellington

We stopped at a farm stall outside Wellington to buy bread and found these happy pigs

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© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2016

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