Sunday

Delvera

We visited some of the wine producers of the Stellenbosch area.  You can buy gourmet picnics from Warwick Wines and sit nibbling your food and sipping your wine in the sunshine. This sounded delightful but when we got there on Sunday we found that so many people think it’s delightful that you have to book your picnic weeks in advance.  We had a wine tasting and I bought two particularly good tasting bottles of white wine (for later). 

Delvera, though, do lunches which you can eat in the garden and have a children’s play area which was useful as we had a child with us, Marjory’s granddaughter, Milla Ann.  We also had Milla Ann’s parents with us, Michael and Verika, which also came in handy as Michael knows far more about wines than any of us.  In fact, when it comes to wine I am on a par with those who don’t know much about art but know what they like.  My palate is not subtle and has three settings for wine - lovely, drinkable and unpleasant. We lunched among bushes and trees and drank the wine Michael chose.    

Our final winery was  Uva Mira, very high up with stunning views over Cape Town and Stellenbosch.   I loved it so much I wanted to come back another time and stay.  But their rental cottages are only available on two year leases.

Uva Mira

Later that evening we went to Michael and Verika’s house.  Milla Ann, who is three,  was dressed in pink, and had a very pretty pink bedroom, much of it painted by her mother.  There were animals and birds on the walls and lots of spangle.  She took me by the hand and seated me in her little pink play house.  I sat for a while but when I tried to get up she became unhappy and began hitting me round the head.  Very unexpected  - like being mugged by a fairy.           

The Fairy Mugger with her Father