Photos from Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa

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Our wine tasting group

There is food...there is wine...than there is me carrying my own golf bag to lose it out at Royal Cape Town...

Royal Cape Town...and drive to the airport before reaching home...September is over...October is full of more...

Ramen in CT...oh yes!!!

Nice suite in CT....nicer terrace..but we are out for dinner soon...

Our flight back home from Cape Town to Durban...only 17 bottles between 2 of us...the best here...

18th at Steenberg..I just eagle the par 5! The simple life...

Stopped to say hi to friendsat Steenberg..had to have a snack...

Sometime we do gourmet breakfast too....

Serious..solid...so fun....

Tanya....in SA we don't normally eat out great...we do it at home....but the last 24 hours...it's something else...

Protege....simply simple and gorgeous...

It was dinner...than lunch..we go for a one hour nap...because dinner is coming soon...

Game!!

Desert at La Petite Colombe

The ladies love the place...

Do I complain?? No!!!

Trompe l'oeil....this is not Caviar...even if we did buy some solid one on the trip...

Serious fun...

No Michelin stars here...they haven't reached our paradise...and this is perfect...but would be an easy 2 stars...

Lunch time with great friends....some bring their wine in a restaurant...I just bring the winemaker....and it's sublime!

Second stop..this is lunch...La Petite Colombe...

Not vines....but peaches...

9.30am....time to do what we do best..at Holden Manz....Franschoek...

On the hills of Franschoek...

This is a wrap for tonight at Le Coin Francais...

We are still only in our first leg of restaurant touring...

I brought my son when he was younger to some serious fun in Shanghai...but this is more serious...

One day I'll die....till that day...just have some fun...

The wife is stunning...the food too...

Smoke trout...and a lot more...

go...over the next three meals...over 15/20 courses...

Are you/we...ready....first stop, Le Coin Francais...

Franschoek....

Franschoek main street...

Franschoek main street...

Our crib in Franschoek....I spent a lot more cash on my meals than my bed here...

Lunch...simple and nice setting....

We love this place, at Rust en Vrede...

Stop for lunch...steak or salmon, the place!

Simple life...

At Dornier...no top wines here...just stunning cheap Semilon, Malbec and Petit Verdhot....do I say I breath wine....

Dinner at Den Aker....simply good!

Cape Town time...

That view...

Franschhoek vineries

Franschhoek vineries

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug...more history

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