Leopard's Leap is situated next to La Motte on the R301 going to Franschhoek. The leopard-on-a-branch feature sculpture of the estate has always caught my eye driving on the main road towards Franschhoek. I quite like the La Motte estate for a couple's dinner or baby shower (even lunch/ coffee with the…
This post was originally written in 2012 with the title "The biggest jungle gym at Eaglevlei". Back in 2012 Eaglevlei sported the biggest wooden jungle gym that I had ever seen at a wine farm in the Stellenbosch area. On the estate's website it was labelled as the biggest jungle gym…
Riebeek Valley is famous for its annual olive festival and quaint coffee shops and farm stalls that attract a steady stream of weekend wanderers wanting to get out of the city and experience this peaceful countryside. We met up with family for breakfast in the valley on a Saturday morning and afterwards went…
The Millhouse Kitchen at Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West wows visitors with both a trendy interior and its child-friendly amenities. As one of the oldest wine farms in Somerset West (established in 1700 and once part of the Vergelen wine farm owned by Willem Adriaan van der Stel) the wine estate not only…
This Summer try something different and take the kids with when you and your family/ friends go wine tasting. We uncovered four wine estates that offer a grape juice tasting for children alongside their formal adult wine tasting experience. It is Spier's kiddies grape juice tasting that first came to our…
Babylonstoren has been on my to-do list for a very long time. It is one of the best preserved old Cape Dutch farms and is renowned for its impressive garden that is based on the Company's Garden maintained by Jan van Riebeeck and Co. The Company's Garden served boats as…
On one of the many holidays that came along in April we were keen to explore the countryside of Wellington as we had no energy for a trip into the city or the V&A Waterfront that is usually swarmed with people on holidays. It turned out to be a great…
Skilpadvlei is a cozy family-friendly restaurant thanks to their hearty food and roaring fireplace in the winter. It was by pure chance that we ended up at Skilpadvlei the first time which was on a very wet winter's evening last year. We stumbled upon their buy-one-get-one free burger special on…
We wanted to take lo out to run about on a Friday afternoon and was planning something like the Garden Centre on the R44, but then we thought about what the Friday traffic in and around Stellenbosch could look like on a Friday and we quickly discarded that idea. “Why…
Brenaissance is the new kid on the block in Stellenbosch when it comes to wine estates. Driving around one Friday afternoon we decided to pop in and take a look at the venue and menu they have to offer. Kids will be kids and the drive to wine and stud…
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