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Our hotel is about 6 km from the town, overlooking the hills, vineyards and the Stellenbosch golf course. The Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup is currently taking place in South Africa. We were surprised to see the England Women’s cricket team in our hotel. It turns out that four other national teams are also based here. At breakfast we could see various preparation meetings taking place. The England players were preparing for their game against the West Indies in Paarl, which happens to be the third oldest town in South Africa. There was clearly someone keeping count. To give them our support we drove to Paarl to cheer on the English team.
The ground is on the outskirts of Paarl, just off a main road. It did not look safe to pull up just anywhere, so we pulled into the car park for the officials to ask directions. Janice walked over to the entrance to ask directions. In the next moment I was being ushered to drive into their car park. A further 50 Rand payment later and we parked just in front of the main entrance. Janice has clearly picked up a talent for smoothing palms with money and it worked.
The heat was close to 38 degrees Celsius. It must have been a challenge to play cricket. But the game was good and England won convincingly, Well done England.
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We promptly drove back for dinner at an amazing Afrikaans restaurant, Great food, wine and service. If we ate in this quality of restaurant in the UK, we would be talking about it for days and most likely paid four times the price. If you like your food, then Stellenbosch should be on your list to visit.
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Tomorrow we move to Franschhoek, which claims to have even nicer restuarants. The bar is set high, so we shall see.
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