Wednesday 15th July: Graaf Reinet-Oudtshoorn-Montagu.
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| Graaf Reinet |
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| Trinity Methodist Church in Graaf Reinet |
We were on the road at 9.15 for the 550 km drive to Montagu. I’ve
already booked the John Montagu Guest House there and we’ll have our
dinner in town to mark the last night of the journey. Montagu is in the
mountains on Route 62, the longest wine route in the world. It’s far
enough South to escape the summer heat of the Karoo and far enough North
to escape the wet Cape winters, yet we’re only 180 kms from Somerset
West at that point.
We
hope to arrive Somerset west tomorrow in time for lunch at Al Dente, a
small Italian Restaurant that does wonderful pasta. We stopped in
Oudtshoorn for a toasted sandwich. It’s the Ostrich capital of SA.
We’d
covered 350kms of the 550km journey. Amazingly, when we left
Graaf-Reinet we drove on a stretch of road that was dead straight for
120kms. That was a first on this trip, and it was tarred to perfection.
Needless to
say, there was a speed trap on it but at 120 limit, we didn’t need to
worry. Dusty would have a hissy fit at 120. We always kept it to a max of 100 kph. We arrived into Montagu
at 5pm, well before the daylight faded.
After settling into our guest
house, we went to Jessicas restaurant for dinner and once again, a
reasonably early night at 11pm.
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