We left Lesotho and right away reentered teh world of fencing with every propoerty fenced to protect it. We headed towards Port Elizabeth and ended up driving for 8 hrs through 2000m mountain passes with really good roads so Chris oozed F1 driver attitude... Luckily no police in sight!
The mountain passes opened up to the planes of the northern cape - the astonishing fact is that there are 100s of kms of uninhabited land. Reminded us of Texas Hill country but with mountains... Very dry and rugged bushes....
We slept one night in Oudtschoon which is the world capital of Ostrich! Started out in the 1800 for its feathers ended up today for its meat... We then followed on and slept in Swellendam at a historical home.
4 days left, two more days in the winelands with 5 important regions to visit: Franschoek, Swartland, Stellenbosch, Robertson and Paarl.
We only have time to explore three and will keep Swartlandand Franschoek for our next trip. Interestingly enough a couple of days here have turned into a business opportunity to import south african wines to Texas - a practically non-existing offering today with Texans little or not aware that South Africa even produces wine....
The cape is definately alot more colonial in feel - with lots of European decents spending their money and the rest serving them....
We dined twice at the Bosman restaunrant which is part of the Grande Roche hotel - the chef, Christophe was inspiring. He is young and dynamic, someone we want to follow in the future, he is destined for grestness - we would not be surprised if he ended up running one of the top tables in the world.
Today on the menu : Rust en Vrede and most likely Klein Constancia wineries
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