Wednesday, November 30, 2022

In MENU This Week. Agulhas Triangle wine festival, Southern Cape Weekend

Fluffy clouds over Pearly Beach

The last day of November and things are slowing down, with not much other than family and friends in the diary. So MENU this week is all about a trip with friends to the coolest wine region in the country (some say) for a local festival and a weekend excursion around it. We had a lot of fun…

Agulhas Triangle Wine Festival

When we heard, way back in early September, that there was going to be an Agulhas Triangle Wine Festival, we booked accommodation immediately, as close to the site as we could afford. We love these southernmost Cape wines but it is rather a long way from Cape Town and making a summer weekend of it in November seemed to be A GOOD THING. It was held at Lomond Wine Farm, which is just south of Gansbaai on the Baardskeerdersbos road. Read on…

A Southern Cape weekend

We made an escape down to the Cape Agulhas area for the weekend and a wine festival. We took our visiting friends from Holland who have not been able to come here for four years because of Covid. We booked accommodation near Pearly Beach and wanted to show them this lovely area, which is about 2½ hours' drive out of Cape Town. Well, not if you leave the city on Friday afternoon, when everyone else is also leaving, but we were not in any rush and made stopped along the way to get pies for lunch at Houw Hoek, which seems now to have the best in the Elgin valley and provisions at Gansbaai Spar. Our friends had never been to the very southernmost tip of Africa, so that was on the agenda. Read on…



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