Part 9: South Africa - Neethlingshof Wineyard, Mooiberge Winery And Distillery, Gordon's Bay

5th january 2009
today we decided to do something that everyone stays in Stellenbosch must do - wine tasting. we choose one of the wineyard that has free entrance fee and not too commercialized. wen decided for us to go to Neethlingshof Wineyard.

painting of Neethlingshof Estate


one of the restaurant inside

once we reach there, we go straight to the wine tasting centre.

@ wine tasting centre entrance

and began our wine tasting...

during wine tasting

we had Gewűrtztraminer, Chardonnay - Wooded, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Laurentius and Pinotage.

needless to say, every wine tastes bitter to me. lol

we then went to the wine shop.

wine is cheap in South Africa!

so we bought the maximum bottle that we can bring back malaysia, FOUR! kiasu malaysians ma hahahaha.. we then began to walk around.. and we spotted a few statues. maybe the wine got into us, because everyone began to play with the statue.

take 1: daddy


take 2: shu-min


take 3: shu-wen


take 4: mummy


take 5: kuma

me and wen even spotted this statue and did the pose while other angmo visitors were looking!

=.=" sweat case, i know.

and there was a very beautiful garden inside Neethlingshof.

beautiful mummy in the beautiful garden


orange flowers


omg look at my shoulder. T_T


the wineyard



@ the wineyard






i love this photo


at the driveway of Neethlingshof
picture stolen from shu-wen's blog

we left Neethlingshof Wineyard quite early, we thought of dropping by at Mooiberge Winery And Distillery, which is actually more known as Mooiberge Strawberry Farm!

there they have many cute cute colourful statues, scarecrows, strawberries.. etc.

with a tractor


the playground


scarecrows

imagine coming at night and all those scarecrows starting talking.. *hair standing* watch too much horror movie d. lol

windmill


@ the strawberry farm


it's a big big farm


mum found a BIG strawberry


and look at the number of scarecrows they have


me with one of the scarecrow on bicycle

too bad the weather was too hot that day. we couldnt stand being under the sun even for 5 minutes! apatah lagi, plucking strawberries =S though it's very tempting to pluck as it is really cheap and you can actually fill the container with as much BIG BIG JUICY STRAWBERRIES as you can.

plucked and wrapped strawberries for sale

we choose to buy them anyway. couldnt resist! at least we have some fresh strawberries back!


6th january 2009
according to shu-wen, they have a really big second hand bookstore in Gordon's Bay. and mum being a fan of books, we went over to Gordon's Bay.

@ the entrance of the second hand bookstore

of course inside, it's just books books and books! but you should be impressed how organised they arrange it!

books


inside the bookstore


one of the corridor

before we went in, we said to ourselves, NO BUYING OF BOOKS. books are heavy and waste our luggage space! but in the end, mum bought a few books too. temptation is high there =.=''

then we went over to have a look at the souvenir shops.

inside the souvenir shop

in this shop, most of the things are made of seashells!

my favourite

not many people came out for the beach today. as it was really cloudy. you know la, angmo loves the sun to suntan. unlike asians who prefer shades.

look at the sky. filled with clouds!

@ Gordon's Bay Beach

*******to be continued.......