Saturday, 23 February 2013

Robertson


We are staying in a very pleasant guest house in Robertson, which is the heart of the Breede River wineries.
I imagined that the town was named in honour of some kilt-wearing ancestor of Neil's who wandered through the valley swinging a claymore as part of a proud Scottish regiment engaged in expanding the great British Empire. 
The reality is that he was Dr William Robertson and a Scottish minister of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Guess I have read too many Sharpe novels.

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