All that rich food last night has taken its toll on my stomach again but the handy wee pills fix that.
After a nice last breakfast with Ushi at 9, we putter til 11 settling in once again for a 5 day stay, then off first to Spice Route, multi artisan centre. It’s not for us so we carry on down the road to Fairview, whose wines we have in Canada (remember Goats Do Roam...) It’s fascinating that they do have a goat enclosure and they do climb up a sort of windmill with a ramp into the trees for them to much on leaves. Hilarious really.
they have a wonderful spread of cheeses, both goat and cow. A tasting of 5 wines matched to 5 cheeses is $4.50! The a nice long lunch on the shaded patio with a huge tasting tray of meats, 10 (yes, 10) cheeses and wonderful breads. Also a carmelized whole orange served with it. I buy a jar of this to take home.
We waddle out of there and down to Simonsig, one of host Andy’s favorites. We are not disappointed. We called in here when we in Paarl before but it was late in the day. There are few visitors so we have the full attention of marvelous sommelier Toby? He fairly loved trotting out all his knowledge to Ted, who was able to hone his skills somewhat too. We buy a Pinotage (Ted has said he was not keen on them so his taste buds were challenged here!) and a Chenin Blanc, as Ted has been concentrating on this grape on this trip.
Home to rest by the pool, we then have supper at dusk, made up of all the scrumptious leftovers. It is also a sad farewell to hosts Andy & Ushi as they leave at 8pm on their trip.
We were to be the only guests but we are joined by a couple of businessmen from Joburg. From Adolph,we hear very scary stories about life up there and the citadel type mentality it takes to call it home!/
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