Weds Feb 16th - Upgrade!

We booked the hotels and guest houses months ago and when we got to our guest house in Franschhoek today, they couldn't find our booking. I admit that I started to panic slightly even though we had paid the deposit and Bridget had received confirmation. Unfortunately, for them, they had made a mess of the booking and were going to have to offer us the Deluxe suite instead! OH NO! :)

Check out the website of this place, La petite ferme. So we now have a library with a HUGE open fireplace, an enormous mini bar with REALLY cheap wine in it, a bathroom bigger than my kitchen and lounge together at home, a shower big enough for 20 people at least, a huge bed with about 10 pillows, a large balcony with pool, views to die for and the shock of the lot......flowers in the toilet bowl! That caused the dilemma of the day - does one remove flowers from the toilet before going to the toilet, or does one do one's "toilet business" on the flowers? And this is in both bathrooms too. We opted for the latter version.

So after almost dying of shock of being upgraded big-time we decided that we could definitely afford to have lunch here and it was lovely, like REALLY lovely and we think we may only be able to manage an ice cream for dinner this evening we ate so much. So that's where we are now...Bridget is sunning herself, and I'm writing. It would be a shame to waste such a beautiful place by going into Franschhoek to explore. We can do that in the morning.

But oh no, what is that on the horizon? I hope that's not rainclouds I see.

Baboons in the middle of the road. Not exactly a normal every day occurence for us.

The wonderful view over Franschhoek from La Petite Ferme

I think we could eat lunch here.

So, does one remove them before going to the loo?

This was our upgraded room with balcony.

Do we think we can cope with this? Oh well, we can give it a try.