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
.
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
© John & Lynne
Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2016
What lovely pictures. Melissa Sutherland
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