Monday 2 January 2017

After a slightly disturbed night, I woke again at 8am. Got up for a shower and a quick look at CNN. Another terror attack in Turkey. We had a rather poor breakfast - no muesli or eggs - and then booked a wine tour for tomorrow with African Eagle.

Richard crossing the Canopy Walkway 

Then we rested a while in our room. We may visit the botanic gardens today.

We took an Uber to Kirstenbosch gardens - quite a long ride past the Groote Schuur hospital where the first heart transplant was carried out by Christiaan Barnard. At the gardens we paid to enter and got a map. We joined a free guided tour walking, or running, around the gardens, with an enthusiastic lady who knew all the plants and their history.

A selfie in the Gardens with a view

When the tour finished, we continued to explore the Tree Canopy Walkway, the cycads, some of which are nearly extinct; we saw pelargoniums and erica, and fragrant and useful plants. We had a healthy lunch in the tea rooms there. I had vegetable soup. We got a taxi back at about 3pm and rested.

In the evening we headed to Bree Street but were held up by a New Year parade in the streets. We got a table at Charango again and enjoyed a bottle of Chardonnay and sea bass with quinoa. A nice evening.