• Cape Town Airport, we were lucky to have a direct flight from Nelspruit
  • we see many squatter town, but you never get used to them
  • everyone has electricity and there are "street lights"
  • we drive into the South African wine country
  • we are staying at the Spier Wine Estate
  • our Spier room
  • a small pool outside our villa
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  • built like a Mediterranean village
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  • we are off into the  Thelema Mountains to Stellenbosch and the vinyards
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  • Stellenbosch, a beautiful university town with Dutch architecture
  • looks just like Santa Barbara, California
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  • Stellenbosch main square
  • Stellenbosch was founded in 1679
  • the Old College founded in 1863
  • free condoms in many restrooms
  • we follow the Eersterivier higher up the vine covered slopes
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  • monument to Afrikaans culture
  • perhaps weekend homes for Cape Town residents
  • Nelson Mandela statue in front of prison where he was held for a time
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