Abalone House, Paternoster

The restaurant

The Bar

Conservatory

The pool in the courtyard

Upstairs rooms

View to the sea

Our room

Bathroom

King William

Christmas & Thanksgiving

Cake for tea

Scones and other treats

Dinner tasting menu

Lynne at the table

Dinner for two

Autumn vegetable salad, goats cheese mousse, tomato fondue

It was worse than it looks

Redemption: an excellent breakfast:

French toast with bacon, banana and syrup

Dumplings at Dynasty, Bliss at the Breede and Heavenly fish in Hermanus

Clare and waitress Shirley with dumplings

Alex, the Dynasty sushi chef

Fresh bread and mature cheese with Bavaria draught

Cape Infanta

Steep stairs down to the Infanta beach

The remains of "SS Kadie", a 158 ton steamer,

which was wrecked entering the Breede River Mouth in 1864 - with a dead tree

The beach at Infanta

Lynne with a stone axe

Wild windy waves

The Breede River estuary at Infanta

The Breede at Malgas

Malgas

Blue cranes near Stanford

Bluenose and Chips

Our super, friendly and efficient waitress

Hermanus new harbour, from Harbour Rock restaurant

Allee Bleue End of Harvest Festival, Sunday April 3rd 2011

A German celebration of the end of the Harvest

Fun with families

The Allee Bleue manor house with its skyscraper palms

The manor house gate

A peaceful country atmosphere

Allee Bleue GM Wolfgang and Uli Leyrer

A delicious German pairing on plate and in glass

Ian Manley and Paulaner

Winemaker van Zyl du Toit tells the story of the harvest

 van Zyl and Estee du Toit with new arrival Dian

 Dian du Toit

 Estee and Dian

 Norman and Eppie MacFarlane

Wolfgagng Leyrer and Eppie MacFarlane

van Zyl du Toit with Dian

Just desserts

 Head chef Robert Rainsford with delicious German cold meats

 A room in the beautifully restored and furnished manor house

 Wolfgang and Lynne

All photographs © John Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2011