Today was solely for sampling this region's finest vintages and to say we were excited is an understatement. We booked an Easy Rider tour with our hostel and 10.30am set off in a mini bus with 3, as it turned out, boring Germans. They confirmed their status when they actually spat their wine at one vineyard! We visited four vineyards today: - Simonsig - Fairview - Dieu Donne - Tokara After Fairview we stopped in Franschhoek for lunch. By this point I...

This morning we had to say our goodbyes to Dirty Girty (our truck). Nick drove us to the border (15 mins) and then we transferred our masses of luggage to a coach. I must admit that it was nice to have an air-conditioned coach to travel in, however we immediately noticed how anti-social the seating layout was and were grateful for Girty's layout over the last 4 months. Thankfully a coach for 20 had been booked even though we were only a group of 10. This mean...