{"id":208841,"date":"2020-11-16T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/?p=208841"},"modified":"2020-11-17T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:32:28","slug":"wellington-wine-walk-day-2-not-just-about-wine-but-about-coffee-gin-and-country-food-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/wellington-wine-walk-day-2-not-just-about-wine-but-about-coffee-gin-and-country-food-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Wine Walk: Day 2 not just about Wines, but about Coffee, Gin, and Country food too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just over a week ago my school friend Jenny Stephens and I spent two days on the Wellington Wine Walk, a guiding service offered by our school friend Elaine Wegelin and her colleagues Katrin Steytler, and Carol-Ann Jeffrey.<\/p>\n

Jenny, Elaine, and I grew up in Wellington, and sat on the same school benches at three Wellington schools. Having left Wellington after Matric 50 years ago, it was not just an eating and drinking adventure, but it was a catch-up of how our hometown has grown and developed in this time.<\/p>\n

Originally the plan was to tag the Wellington Wine Walk onto a weekend celebration in September of the 50th anniversary of our Matric in Wellington. As with all good 2020 plans, Covid got in the way, and the Matric reunion has been postponed to 2021. Jenny and I could not think of a better escape from Lockdown, and a break from our Cape Town environment, by going on the Wellington Wine Walk. Elaine was fantastic at finding a gap for the two of us, for two days out of a three day Walk, and so we booked 6 and 7 November, with arrival on the afternoon before.<\/p>\n

What we didn\u2019t do was to check the weather forecast for the dates, one assuming that we \"\"would have to cope with heat rather than torrential rain in Wellington, known for its hot summers. I check my Weather App daily, and I didn’t like the look of a very wet weekend forecast. I checked the Wellington weather, using the highly reliable yr.no, as well as some other apps. While the weather apps differed vastly as to when exactly the rain would be at its worst, they did tally on the volume of heavy rain that was forecast. Initially Saturday looked like the heavy rain day, but then this changed to Friday, and in this the forecast was spot on. I had a number of conversations with Elaine and Jenny about the weather, as walking in heavy rain was not to my liking, having had experience of this on my first Camino, in walking through Spain. As a customer-orientated tourist guide, and seeing the volume of rain forecast, Elaine assured us that they would make a plan should the rain live up to its forecast. On that basis we confirmed our booking.<\/p>\n

Note: I wrote about Day One of our Wellington Wine Walk earlier this week, in the link below.<\/p>\n

Wellington Wine Walk far more than about wine, about olives, gin and Buchu too – Day 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n