Woken by the muezzin's call to prayer on Saturday morning at 5.38 - we are on the edge of Bo Kaap which was a predominantly muslim area, although a bit gentrified in places now. Thankfully I had rolled over and fallen asleep again before he finished.
After a leisurely start to the morning, we loaded up the car again on our way to meet Sue & Ally in Paarl and then head off for lunch. From there on things got a little bit challenging. Firstly, our satnav decided to take an hour off and would neither connect nor calculate a route; then my windows phone - with the SA sim - decided it didn't want to communicate with Google Maps; and finally I took a wrong turn and was halfway up Table Mountain before I realised we were heading the wrong way.
Having finally got on the right road, the satnav decided to work again but by now we were running late, so we arranged to meet Sue and Ally at Tokara in Stellenbosch. Then we got stuck in some major road works on the way to Stellenbosch with the result that we took 2 hours for a journey which should have taken no more than 45 minutes.
A glass or two of the Chardonnay which Sue poured as we arrived at Tokara was all that was needed to re-establish my usual calm persona, and of course a good lunch with excellent company.
Headed back to Ally's lovely home in Val de Vie - our bed for the night - a few more glasses of wine followed by a Braai with enough meat to feed an army. It turned a little cooler after the sun went down and was around 7C when we woke on Sunday morning, but as you can see it turned into a lovely morning with the temperature getting up to 20C by lunchtime.
After a leisurely start to the morning, we loaded up the car again on our way to meet Sue & Ally in Paarl and then head off for lunch. From there on things got a little bit challenging. Firstly, our satnav decided to take an hour off and would neither connect nor calculate a route; then my windows phone - with the SA sim - decided it didn't want to communicate with Google Maps; and finally I took a wrong turn and was halfway up Table Mountain before I realised we were heading the wrong way.
Having finally got on the right road, the satnav decided to work again but by now we were running late, so we arranged to meet Sue and Ally at Tokara in Stellenbosch. Then we got stuck in some major road works on the way to Stellenbosch with the result that we took 2 hours for a journey which should have taken no more than 45 minutes.
A glass or two of the Chardonnay which Sue poured as we arrived at Tokara was all that was needed to re-establish my usual calm persona, and of course a good lunch with excellent company.
Headed back to Ally's lovely home in Val de Vie - our bed for the night - a few more glasses of wine followed by a Braai with enough meat to feed an army. It turned a little cooler after the sun went down and was around 7C when we woke on Sunday morning, but as you can see it turned into a lovely morning with the temperature getting up to 20C by lunchtime.
Great picture of you all. Looks like it turned out to be a good day after all.
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