Delayed Post: Wine Tour

I waited to post this until the drama had fully played out.

So yeah, I did a winelands tour. We started in Franschoek, did a nice long bike ride to start off the morning. The scenery was nice, and though I had trouble on the initial hill, I left everyone in the dust once we hit the dirt road. Its so much easier on a mountain bike than my little cruiser, and the road was better than the one in Itiso. I do wish we could have gotten lunch instead of starting right in on the wine. So we each had a few glasses, then went to another winery in Stellenbosch. Then we finally got lunch, did our tastings, and they gave us this really tasty honey liquer that we dipped chocolate in. Mmmmm. At the last place we got a card that let us chooce any 5 wines off a list. We like that better, since we could get all whites if we liked white instead of having to drink the reds or sit the round out. I bought a lovely bottle to bring home. I hope I don't end up with just a bag of wine-soaked clothes. There was also a cheetah park and raptor exhibit, for the people who were tired of drinking. I did not go. Unfortunately, I lost my camera at this wonderful place. I didn't notice until I was back at the hostel, it was a Sat. evening and the tour company and winery phones were both closed. I couldn't get a hold of them until Monday when they both said they had not seen my camera. Tuesday, in a final, desperate attempt, I called again and the winery said that security had my camera. Hoorah! By then it was 1pm and I needed to get it back immediately as I flew out early Wed morning. None of the tours could pick it up as they weren't going there that day and a courier service wanted 1,000 Rand to pick it up, so I used the 1,000 Rand to take a txi there and back instead. Don't look up the exchange rate, it still makes me sad. But it had pictures all the way back to visiting my friends village and my goodbyes to Itiso, not to mention thqt entire trip, making it priceless.

I immediately loaded the pics to my computer and added some to my previous blogs, so have a look!


Apologies for typos. French keyboards are evil.