Day 10 - Off to Cape Town

Today is the travel day to Cape Town.  We arrived with no complications and the sun was shining.  We had set up a wine tour for the afternoon and the tour guide (Thabang) was ready for us when we arrived at the guest house. The guest house is a renovated house that has all renewed wood floors, tall ceilings and wonderfully friendly staff.   This area of South Africa is beautiful.  Everything is green.  We visited two wineries and tasted 11 different wines. (Great to have a designated driver!)  They grow many variety of grapes here so the wine selection goes from very light whites to deep full flavored reds.  John's favorite has been the Chenin Blanc and Denise's has been Melbac.  The area we went to is called Stellenbosch.  The town is now a university town and has the feel of New Orleans.  There are lots of wrought iron balconies.  There are oak trees which were planted at first to use for the wine barrels, but they grew to fast in this area so they still import the oak for the barrels from France. Our tour guide suggested a township tour for the next morning based on our questions about housing and schools in the area.  So that is our plan for tomorrow.  We walked to the main road for dinner and had a wonderful meal at a grill house.