Annabel was determined to make my birthday special and had spent weeks planning what to do and inviting different people I have met during my time here. She had run her plans by me previously just in case I didn't like her ideas but she told me it was purely "hypothetical " and I was to forget what she had said because she wanted my day to be a surprise! Haha! Anyway her plan involved a friend called Michelle who we have met previously. Michelle lives on a ...

We arrived in Cape Town and my Dad, Terry and Step Mum, Annabel were at the airport waiting to pick us up. The drive back to the farm (Sorrento Stud) was a long one due to road works on the N1 so we had to take a long detour which didn't help us with our sense of direction. The farm itself is near a town called Paarl, the wineland area, which is actually about 60 miles away from Cape Town itself although if you look at it on a map it really doesn't look that ...