25th January Day 4

Robertson is a beautiful town, a hub for agriculture and wine, the town is on the banks of the Breede River and is surrounded by vineyards and orchards, after a drive round the town we headed to the small village of Mcgregor, this quaint village is a stone throw away from Roberston, it has recently become a retreat for artists. It felt very much like Pleasantville, again, things moved slowly here, bigger than Nieu Bethesda with quite a lot of development but still very rustic. We had a healthy breakfast and decided to keep up with the healthy trend and went to Montagu to the hot springs.

I always had bad impressions about the place, I did not know what to expect, whether there would be some old windbag healing her arthritis next to me, or some young drunk git urinating on my foot.

It was very relaxing, even I was able to rest away, the spa is in a wonderful setting, after feeling like a newish man we decided to head home via the Montagu dried fruit and nut cooperative.

Two and bit hours later I arrived home, I can look back and say that the detour to Williston and Fraserburg to Sutherland was a waste of time, but I guess some body had to go see the place, somebody had to see whether the Karoo Hoogland publicity department was understating or overstating things, they were very successful at overstating things.

The highlight of the trip was the eccentric folk we came across. The Sheila Snyman’s, the Kobus’s of this part of the world.

I cant wait for my next opportunity to drive from Cape Town to Johannesburg so I can dream up some ludicrous journey….

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1) The Road to Montagu- This picture was taken from http://www.kapstadt.net/images/gardenmontagu2_510.jpg