Sometime it's all about food and wine! Four days between Cape Town and Franschoek...
October 7th 2021 After the Blue Train, here we are on for four nights around Cape Town before being back home for a few days. Lately all trips to Cape Town have been part of way longer trips. So now that we have a short stay, let's splurge a little for once. We spent our first night and last night in Cape Town...and 2 nights in between in gorgeous Franschoek.
The food on the Blue Train was decent, but far
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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... ... read more 
