Saturday 19^th July, 2014…….A little more leisurely start this morning, at last…..on the road at 8 am and sorry to leave Hermanus, a great spot and it was great accommodation…..we took the R44 route and it was the Atlantic Ocean on one side with granite mountains on the other side….first town we went drove through was Kleinmond and where the SA’s holiday….beautiful homes, lots of beach holiday homes and the ever present shacks on the outskirts!  Leucodendrums (yellow ones) grow wild here…..they make such a picture of yellow on the landscape…..then we drove through Betty’s Bay and oh the granite rocks….then to Rooiels Bay where we stopped and took pics…this whole coast is so picturesque but so hard to stop as it is very like the Thames Coast Road…..then on to False Bay where at last we saw a marina with yachts and again beautiful homes…..the Western Cape is definitely where the money is in SA….then we were back on the N2 to Strand which is really a satellite city of Cape Town…..then we got back on to the picturesque  R44 route and drove to Stellenbosch, finally surrounded by vineyards and apple and pear trees…..some Dutch architecture but not all the Dutch architecture like we had expected …….we did a wine tasting at Morgenhof Winery…tasted 5 of their best wines and they sure give you a good measure to taste….we have fallen in love with Pinotage wines since we have been here and at this winey we had a very good one….Fantail and we bought more for $6.90 US a bottle….and they seem to export everywhere in the world except NZ…..then we went onto another winery for lunch ..Neethlingshof  Winery…..there is no irrigation in the vines here as their rainfall is sufficient we were told….then it was our drive on into Cape Town….there seemed to be kms and kms of shacks on our drive between Stellenbosch and Cape Town but as our guide said in the apartheid days all the blacks had to leave the cities…there was evidence of the government houses being built but it will take them a life time to try and rehouse all these people…..really a tragic sight! Coming into Cape Town, pointed out to us was the hospital where Christian Barnard did the world’s first heart transplant….our digs are in Seapoint which is a nice area of Cape Town and we are central to everything but unfortunately the internet is still a disaster!!  And so in the evening we went out to an African Restaurant which was good and to see blacks and whites dining together and it was great music……M & F