The last time I drove through the Cape on my own was more than twenty years ago. I did it often; always however, with an agenda, a business meeting at a winery, or a dairy, at a set time. Which meant, of course, there was little time to dawdle, to savour the views, to sit and ponder the beauty.
This Time, I had Time: as much as I liked, so I pottered.
Meandering back from visiting friends in Veldrif aiming for Cape Town and taking whichever road tickled my fancy:


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..in patches everywhere, still Ready for winter St Helena Bay – and still this doesn’t do it justice




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Paternoster: Too much sun, not enough water Paternoster – watching me watching them Saldana – seems somehow to fit into the landscape



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Always ahead of me driving back on R27 : The mountain, a magnet for the eye