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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 4, 30 March 2020

 

Monday 30 March 2020, Day 15 of SA Corona Virus, Day 4 of Lockdown😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for another beautiful day; for a good long night’s sleep; for being healthy and fit; for keeping my weight steady; for feeling happy, especially when I dance to Kfm💃; for having Woolworths so close and for its excellent service in organizing stock of products they are short of; for finding masks and sanitizers at Litekem Pharmacy today; for passing my Garden Route exam; for reconnecting and forgiving; for the City of Cape Town trucks collecting garbage from the green bins plus our residential bins; for exceeding my step goal today; and our ever more amazing President . 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Restaurant Review: Lunch in the Bramon vineyard in Plett best on the Garden Route!

The highlight of our Garden Route trip last week was having lunch at Bramon, a pioneering boutique wine estate outside Plettenberg Bay. This was one of the first wine estates in the area, and has established itself not only as a good wine destination, but as having a good friendly restaurant too. My French friend was blown away by us eating …. and drinking ……in the vineyard!  Continue reading →

Open Kitchen in McGregor serves good Steak and Tapas, but with very slow service!

At the end of a Garden Route tour with my Parisian friend last week, we spent one night at Temenos in McGregor. As Tebaldi Restaurant at Temenos was fully booked, we chose to eat at Open Kitchen, a restaurant which opened in winter last year, but which I had not experienced previously. It serves good steak and Tapas, but the service is very slow! Continue reading →