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Cape Town 5:47 pm - Hopkins...it is looking like you may have to tune in for next season. This season would be far too predictable with that kind of ending. Instead, let me paint you a picture. Stellenbosch was a desert compared to Constantia!!!! There may only be 5 vineyards there but it is gorgeous beyond belief! For Jenkins - picture beautiful women, long blond hair riding their horses beside the fields of grapes. Exquisite (and I'm sure very expensive) houses but the place is amazingly gorgeous and wine - let me tell you!!! There was fresh fennel, there was vanilla, there was limited release...it just doesn't get any better! Yes, we have more wine to bring home. Or should I say, I have more wine to bring home and I'm hoping that Grant will help me carry it. I think I pushed my luck with another half day of wine tasting but I'll do whatever it takes to make it up to Grant! The wine was superb!!! I think Grant would have preferred to sit in the car but he did wander in to every winery and he even tasted three wines!!

Our morning was quite the contrast with a trip to District Six Museum. District Six was a multi racial part of South Africa that lived in harmony until the 1960's with the beginning of Apartheid. The government declared it a "white only" area and shipped everyone off to the Townships. We visited the Townships afterwards which are a stark reality check of shanty town after shanty town. We did visit (perhaps to make us "tourists" feel better) the pre-school that the tour company helps to fund. 68 kids in total attend this pre-school and at the time we walked in, there were 25 kids aged 3-4 years. Our guide warned us that they are used to seeing people drop by and he said "if you pick up one, you have to pick them all up". Sure enough, with squeals of delight, these kids wrap themselves around your legs and bring you toys to play with them. They are the most wonderful kids to see and yes, I almost took a few home!! Grant informed me that you can't claim back the VAT tax on these items. So, I left them all there.

Having learned "compromise" on this trip, I've decided not to hold fast to my "last dinner" being at a winery (Grant had endured enough already). So we're off to have dinner at an Indian restaurant we tried on our first night here. THE most amazing Indian food I've ever had so I'm not too hard done by!

Looking forward to seeing everyone!!! And I am sure there will be a few more posts as we travel home ;)

k&g