River Goose Day 2

We weren’t up until gone 7am this morning. Late for us, but for some reason I just couldn’t get comfortable last night and didn’t end up falling properly asleep until the early hours of the morning. It didn’t matter though as we had nothing planned for today except maybe a drive out later and for most of the morning we sat around camp.
Around 10:30am we finally decided to do something with the day and left the campsite heading 12 miles down the road to a town called Montagu.
Once again there wasn’t a lot there unless you wanted to eat and fortunately for Montagu we did.
The first shop we went in at the closest end of town was a Padstal selling lots of home made jars of things and sauces but there was also a large restaurant. We didn’t eat there but chose to drive on and scout the rest of the town out incase there was anything different to see or a different eatery. There were lots of eatery’s , we don’t know how they all keep going but we chose one at the far end of town called the orchard. It was busy but most of the people were outside and we chose to sit inside. Once again they sold homemade jars of things and sauces and most of these padstals have the feeling that it was once a farm building of some kund and it’s just been repurposed with minimum effort which does add to the charm. This one was no different but the did an amazing burger with homemade chutney and Ellie had toasties with ham, cheese and tomato. I ended up wearing most of mine. After the meal we managed to facetime Ben which felt good as we haven’t spoken to him face to face for a couple of weeks. He said he’s looking forward to our return.
We left Montagu and drove back through the mountain pass to camp. It was now 2pm and all but 2 of us had left. The camp was super quiet.
We managed to sneak in a quick nanna nap and then I did my Spanish lessons and Ellie got up and joined me an hour later, then we spent the rest of the afternoon just talking until 4:30pm when I lit the Braai. Our neighbours left at the same time and we had spoken to them yesterday whilst swimming and overnight they had gotten engaged. They were a nice couple and we congratulated them.
I served a dinner of Ostrich Steaks, mashed potato and mint Halloumi at 6:30pm and it was a great meal, one of the tastiest I’ve cooked out here but you can’t go wrong with ostrich.
Once dinner was dinner we sat outside until it got dark at 7:30pm and then headed inside so Ellie didn’t get got by the frogs.Читать далее