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december 2023 - januari 2024

Effi & James’ Honeymoon Adventure in South Africa 🇿🇦🤍 Meer informatie

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- 10 jan 2024 13:24
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Hoogte: 267 m
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape Overstrand -34.331277, 19.32662534°19’53” S 19°19’36” E
Dag 12
Tour de Wine - Stage 3
10 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
…….. it rained 😳🥹
Well, in the morning - a bit. And it was still 20 degrees, so we really can’t complain!
In the morning, we went to the most cute and extravagant book store. We bought a book - about wine…
*shock* *horror* 😬

For lunch, we had a food & wine pairing at Creation wines. This was simply stunning (for lack of better words and writing this post after multiple glasses of wine) 🤭

The day was finalised with a couple of Canasta games. So far, I am leading. We will see for how long that lasts 🫣Meer informatie
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- 11 jan 2024 16:26
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Hoogte: 299 m
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape Theewaterskloof -33.870003, 19.36636733°52’12” S 19°21’59” E
Dag 13
Tour de Wine - Stage 4
11 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The day started with a stunning trip to the beach, a walk along the cliff route to experience some more of the beautiful coast line. The beach was beautiful but the water was so cold! It was a great finale and good send-off from Hermanus. We felt very different today than we did when we arrived 🥰

Then we started our trip through some of the “back roads” of South Africa, more beautiful scenery which also reminded us a bit of how we imagine the US and Australia’s scenery. The farmland here is huge!

A temporarily closed road forced us to delay our arrival in Franschhoek but instead of a 2.5 hour detour back to Cape Town we decided to take our detour at the hidden gem that is the Stettyn Wine Estate, unknown to us but well worth the visit 🍷🇿🇦

Finally in Franschhoek, we settled into our wonderful guesthouse and then explored the neighbourhood. We had dinner at the Tuk Tuk Brewery. A welcome change from wine to beer - especially ahead of the wine team tomorrow 🤭

….could Franschoek be the best place yet??! 🫣❤️Meer informatie
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- 12 jan 2024 10:30
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 240 m
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape Stellenbosch Groendal -33.896672, 19.10097433°53’48” S 19°6’4” E
Dag 14
Tour de Wine - Stage 5 (Franschhoek!)
12 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
A day of our honeymoon that we spent almost entirely individually 😕
James was very unwell so had to spend the day in bed, while I went in the wine tram to explore some of the local vineyards in Franschhoek.
And he even braved one trip out to meet me at Boschendal. My hero 🫶🏼

This area is yet again so stunningly beautiful - I am running out of words to describe this place and South Africa in general.
We are so lucky to be here for our honeymoon. These memories will last forever! 🤍Meer informatie
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- 13 jan 2024 19:47
- ☁️ 22 °C
- Hoogte: 370 m
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape Stellenbosch Franschhoek Middagkransberg -33.914313, 19.13560133°54’52” S 19°8’8” E
Dag 15
Tour de Wine - Stage 6 (Franschhoek)
13 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Our last full day in Franschhoek was a bit more of the same - a rather unwell Jamesi and wine tram. Luckily he felt at least a little better so joined me for the day on the tram.
We went to my most anticipated place - Haute Cabriere 🤩 MCC tasting at 10am, not something for every day but it was worth it!!

Then we went back to the guesthouse for some rest time for James and I went to the pool.

We finished the day off at Franks Corner, a quite new restaurant that doesn’t even have an alcohol license yet - so everyone brings their own wine. A great concept to get the restaurant going and people seem to love it 🙂Meer informatie
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- 14 jan 2024 18:06
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Hoogte: 9 m
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town De Waterkant Alfred Basin -33.907988, 18.41988733°54’29” S 18°25’12” E
Dag 16
Back in Cape Town
14 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The day is here - our last full day in South Africa and we couldn’t be more upset 😔🇿🇦
This is and has been our dream come true and the best honeymoon we could have asked for, even if both were a bit unwell today (James still and I seem to come down with something as well - but we shall ignore that!).

On our way back from Franschhoek, we drove past the Farm Sanctuary SA where we met PIGcasso and his rescued mates. Such a surprise that we really enjoyed! Maybe even stay there for a night next time 😍

Back in Cape Town we got ready for our final dinner at Gold Restaurant, a 14-course African experience including drums, African dances and original food 🥘
It was so much fun and seriously tasty!Meer informatie
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- 15 jan 2024 12:15
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Hoogte: Zeeniveau
- Zuid-Afrika Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town Cape Maclear -34.358078, 18.47572334°21’29” S 18°28’33” E
Dag 17
The final day
15 januari, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
It has come to our last day and we tried to fit in as much as possible. We visited Bo-Kaap and the Old Biscuit Mill in town and then drove all the way to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point as well as to Boulders Beach to visit the penguins 🐧🤗
SA made it particularly hard for us to leave with stunning sunshine, glorious temperatures and just the scenery 🤩🇿🇦
We have even seen wild Antelopes in Table Mountain National Park!

When it was finally time to board, we have congratulated ourselves to the upgraded seats we purchased as they have indeed been way more comfortable and the space did make a difference for us 🙂Meer informatie
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- 16 jan 2024 08:27
- ☀️ -4 °C
- Hoogte: 21 m
- Engeland Hillingdon Harmondsworth London Heathrow Terminal 5 51.470815, -0.48840251°28’15” N 0°29’18” W
Dag 18
Back in UK 🇬🇧
16 januari, Engeland ⋅ ☀️ -4 °C
We have made it back safe and sound to the UK - tired and sad that the honeymoon is over but also happy to see our little Pippa again soon and of course all our friends and family ❤️🥰

We are very happy that we upgraded our seats - the first time we did that and it was a great finish to our honeymoon!

South Africa has been a trip we will never forget and it certainly wasn’t the last time we have been to this magical place.
Mother Africa indeed 🇿🇦🫶🏼Meer informatie
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