Sunday, July 4 – Happy Independence Day!
Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl, and Cape Town, RSA
Our USA flags went back up on our rental car for the day and we wore some of our USA gear to celebrate our Independence Day. We called Sylvia (from our Jo’burg B&B) for help in arranging a driver tomorrow in Jo’burg. She totally remembered who we were and was as delightful as ever! And she got us a driver! We made one last valiant effort to find stamps to mail our postcards (Thanks again Richard and Carol for taking care of that for us!) and then took off with Claire and Ali on a tour of the Cape Winelands. We drove through Stellenbosch (and the Stellenbosch campus) and then on to L’Ormarins in Franschhoek for wine tasting and old car viewing. There is a car museum (Franschhoek Motor Museum) there with a TON of priceless cars on site. There are so many cars that they rotate the selection through the three viewing warehouses. Josh really liked checking out the old cars. After the wine tasting, a worker there gave us a personal tour on the grounds past the historic buildings of the winery with beautiful Cape Dutch architecture. The worker was quite taken with Josh and was certain that he was famous, but just couldn’t place him. Ali tried to tell him he was a Kennedy, but the guy thought he saw him in a movie so we told him maybe he thought he was related to Daniel Craig. It was so funny how sure this guy was that Josh wasn’t related to anybody, but actually WAS in the movies. After our little tour we moved on to the Fairview winery in Paarl for cheese and wine tasting. We checked out their goats and then headed back home for a proper braai send-off with Claire and Alistair, Richard and Carol, and Malcolm. We had a great dinner with amazing people. We were so sad to leave them. After Malcolm, Claire and Ali left, we had one last evening of tea and biscuits with Carol and Richard.
Cape Winelands:
L’Ormarins in Franschhoek:
Franschhoek Motor Museum at L’Ormarins in Franschhoek:
Wine tasting at L’Ormarins:
The grounds at L’Ormarins on our personal tour:
The old historic buildings:
Fairview at Paarl:
Cheese (and meats) and wine tasting at Fairview:
Claire & Ali at Fairview:
J, Ali, Claire, & Josh at Fairview:
Fairview’s goats:
Our send-off braai, Richard, Claire & Malcolm:
Ali & J:
Tags: CapeTown, Claire&Ali, JFJ