The formal knot garden by the entrance and the Stables Restaurant.


Vergelegen restaurants

Cottage reflection at Vergelegen

Peacock taking a cooling soak in the lake

Around the grounds of Vergelegen Homestead.

Vergelegen

 Vergelegen Homestead showing firstly the view through the octagonal garden, then with camphor trees

Shutter Detail

Vergelegen Estate

Auberge Clermont, Franschhoek

A delightful bed and breakfast place just outside Franschhoek.




Auberge Clermont

 The Huguenot Monument at the end of the main street in Franschoek.











We found this lizard in the old graveyard, just pottering about. It looks like a blue headed agama but it has lost its tail.



Huguenot Memorial Museum

Haute Cabriere winery with it's fabulous view of the Franschhoek Valley. The sundial represents the four things that go to make good wine: sun, soil, vine and man.
If you are lucky enough to visit when Achim von Arnim, the famed proprietor, is present you may be treated to a display of sabrage, when he lops the top off the champagne bottles with an historic sabre.


Haute Cabriere

Dylan Lewis sculptures are also on display at the Delaire Graff Estate


Dylan Lewis
Delaire Graff Estate

At the Delaire Graff Estate they have some very posh tasting rooms and an exclusive restaurant. The vines stretch out across the hillside surrounded by rugged mountains.



Delaire Graff Estate

Bedroom details at Boschendal Manor House

In the living room at Boschendal Manor

Boschendal Manor House

Boschendal Manor House 1812

Back view, now visitor entrance

Beautifully restored and showing some lovely original features of a house of that period. It is built as an H-shape and has yellowwood ceilings, floorboards and doors set in teak frames.

The H-shape

The front facade

Boschendal Manor House

The fountain at the entrance to La Motte and a reminder of where we were on the hillside.





La Motte

Our beautifully presented sandwich by the fireplace





La Motte

 'Chandelier' in the restaurant at La Motte vineyards,


La Motte

'Les Girls'






Babylonstoren

Mr and Mrs Scarecrow






Babylonstoren Garden

The Bell

It was rung to call the workers in from the fields - at lunch and end of day




Babylonstoren

Birds and bees





Babylonstoren Garden

Prickly pear pollination

In the 'bee garden'.





Babylonstoren Garden

Definitely 'free-range'.




Babylonstoren Garden

Malachite sunbird, nectarinia famosa, enjoying nectar from the flowers of schotia brachypetalum, common names include weeping boer-bean, huilboerboon, tree fuchsia and African walnut.

Mon petit chou

Produce from the Green House is used to produce delicious meals in Babel as well as the Green House Café.




Babylonstoren Green House
Babel Restaurant

The Book Table in the Green House





Babylonstoren Green House

Delicious coffee and cakes in the Green House at Babylonstoren




Babylonstoren Green House

Artichoke destined for the restaurant


Babylonstoren Garden
Babel

Friendly tortoise speeding around the Garden





Babylonstoren Garden