In August this year, we spent a relaxing weekend in the beautiful Southern Cape town of Riversdale. Here are the links to all the other posts about our trip – I hope you enjoy clicking your way through them! 1. From Cape Town to Riversdale 2. Oakdale Cottages 3. Riversdale and surroundings 4. Sonja Herholdt…
On Sunday morning, after breakfast, we stowed all our gear into the car, tidied up our little cottage, and shared the remaining carrots and apples between the two horses. It felt great to have made friends with both of them – even the grey one looked sad to see us go. With a final wave…
After our explorations of the Korentepoort Dam to the north of Riversdale, we returned to our accommodation at Oakdale Cottages to pick up some nibblies – and to prepare that obligatory thermos of tea – for our drive down to the coast, some distance south of Riversdale. We wanted to explore the small seaside towns…
After the breakfast concert with Sonja, and still humming some of the tunes we had heard, we were pleased to see that the previous day’s rain had not returned and that the skies were blue! Perfect weather for a drive to the Korentepoort Dam, a little to the north of Riversdale.
On Saturday morning, we attended a delightful breakfast concert in the Riversdale Town Hall. The event had been arranged by a local organisation known as DROOM. An Afrikaans word that means dream, DROOM is actually an acronym for Diens aan Riversdal en Omgewing se Ouer Mense, i.e. Serving the Elderly of Riversdale and Surroundings. This is…
Here is a slideshow of some pictures we took during our weekend in Riversdale.
The pelting rain that swept us into the lovely town of Riversdale almost entirely obscured our view through the windows. The directions to our accommodation hadn’t been entirely unambiguous, and because we hadn’t visited Riversdale before, we soon found ourselves quite disoriented. We took a couple of wrong turns through the centre of town, but…
When we left Cape Town in the late morning of Friday, 05 August 2011, it was partly overcast, but it wasn’t raining. It was extremely chilly, though, and we were grateful to have the heater on in the car. Brrrr… We had the i-pod plugged into the i-trip (technology rocks! an i-trip is a little…
Grains of Sand 