Departure Day (D Day) has come and gone, can you believe it
we got away at 08h30, target was 08h00, not so bad for old timers.
Yesterday we dropped Snuggles, our African Grey parrot at
Karen’s Lavender Hill guest house so we only had ourselves to worry about. The
peace of Eastford Glen was broken as early as 06h00 when the Speed Festival
contestants started to arrive at the start of the Simola Jaguar Hill Climb,
with their straight through exhausts (no silencers) blasting the early dawn
serenity. You can be sure that nobody in this part of Knysna will be having a
lie in this weekend. Even horses in the area had to be tranquilised, but we
understand that was due to low flying helicopters not 250HP Lamborghinis and
Ferraris’ roaring past their paddocks.
Our trip today covered a distance of 591kms and all in all
an uneventful day and it helped ease us into our driving mode, which we needed
after nearly a year in Knysna with our longest trip being to George all of
50kms away. We stopped for coffee in Swellendam at the Old Mill Restaurant,
built in the 1800’s and is a national monument, we had a picnic lunch at a lay
bye arriving in Clanwilliam at 16h00 where we are staying at Saint du Barry’s
guest house, a lovely stop over built in the shade of a huge wild fig tree.
Wally and Joan are the perfect hosts and had booked a table at the Dam Bistro a
short walk from the guest house and we had a very nice dinner before crashing
even before load shedding started. It was a bit noisy after the load shedding,
but we were so exhausted so did not affect us.
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