Went out for a meal in an open-air restaurant near Lamberts Bay recommended by the lady we rented a fisherman’s cottage from. She said we couldnt possibly visit the area without eating at this place. It was indeed a good recommendation. It was pretty cold for open air eating beside the Atlantic but there was a blazing fire to keep you warm enough. Emphasis was unsurprisingly on fresh sea food so wonderful fish, starters consisted of pickled and dried salted fish and wonderful calamari freshly battered and straight from the pan with lemon butter or their own tartare sauce. We also had Paella (cooked in a Potjie or ‘Dutch oven’ of course). It was all informal sitting on blankets on wooden benches eating with a mussel shell (no cutlery). Fish was Snoek and Yellow tail amoung others as well as a Lamb stew and Venison stew. Potato was cooked in a big saucepan in thin slices like crisp and was excellent. Also had half a local Crayfish all washed down with loval Olifants River vineyards wine. All this for around GBP13 per head, fantastic. The music was ‘local’ Afrikaans, think Eurovision song contest crossed with Nashville, lovely, yes indeedy!!
Went on to the Cedarberg area with the intention of camping for two nights and doing some walking in the mountains. We did one walk, up to a waterfall, but as we left the top of the mountain the cloud started to descend and it then rained ALL night. I am fraid we were wet and demotivated so we abandonned Cedarberg to depart for Cape Town. We should be used to this coming from the UK but we really were too wet and cold. The dirt roads through the mountains were pretty slippery after all that rain. So we are now in Cape Town, we have rented a small appartment for a few days to catch up with things we need to do here.