We spend the next 4 days touring many wineries and the town of Paarl whose Heritage Trail has many historic churches and buildings) and driving around the gorgeous countryside here. Stellenbosch and Franschoek are the big tourist Centre’s but we give them a miss from carloads of people strolling the main drag visiting the many cafes, restos and tourist shops. We are happy to visit by day and return to our quiet residential neighborhood to sleep.
The wine tours are inexpensive and good. Nederburg’s was a detailed 2 hours, maybe we didn’t need to see all the nuances of a big wine producer, and a generous tasting of all their wines. We remember them from past German Wine events when we had cases of their late harvests. Still good.
The drinking is playing havoc with Ted’s INR level. He tested at 4.6 (optimum from 2-3!) so took no more drugs, then adjusted his dose and was back at 2.2 two days later. Success.
After several days tasting and eating high on the hog, we are ready for a visit to Under the Oaks Farm where they dispense open oven pizza with local families out enjoying the sunset and kids playing in the farmyard, warned not to disturb the cows and goats nearby. This is a very rural area and kids are especially welcome at many of the restos and farm stores abound. You can see why it would be easy to do self-catering holidays here and eat really well.
The drinking is playing havoc with Ted’s INR level. He tested at 4.6 (optimum from 2-3!) so took no more drugs, then adjusted his dose and was back at 2.2 two days later. Success.
After several days tasting and eating high on the hog, we are ready for a visit to Under the Oaks Farm where they dispense open oven pizza with local families out enjoying the sunset and kids playing in the farmyard, warned not to disturb the cows and goats nearby. This is a very rural area and kids are especially welcome at many of the restos and farm stores abound. You can see why it would be easy to do self-catering holidays here and eat really well.
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