Our cooks Peggy and Phandile are well rested after their holidays and are now ready – as we say in South Africa- to ‘cook up a storm’. It...

During the closed season there is always plenty to keep us occupied both on the estate and in the Guest House. It is a good time to catch...

Since buying the estate it has always been our intention to try to produce as much of our food requirements as possible and whilst we...

We have been waiting for a couple of years now for our olive grove to recover from its severe pruning followed by last years scorching...

It was at the beginning of December when we were first warned of the possibilities of ‘loadshedding’ on receipt of a notification from...

There once was a happy donkey called Cesar who lived with his ‘jenny’ (lady donkey) called Rosalie in a beautiful paddock on the Galenia...

We have noticed, since we got into the Extra Virgin Olive Oil business, that our guests were a little reluctant to pack glass bottles of...

Following the demise of our jacuzzi, jacuzzi deck and jacuzzi lounge in February – in fact it was reduced to ashes!!! - we have taken...

Springtime is with us again. In spring it is difficult to say what kind of weather we will have – sometimes brilliant sunny days, at...

We are happy to say that our contractors are working well and our new rooms are beginning to look familiar again. All six rooms are now...

There is no better way to explain the progress on the reconstruction of Rooms 1 to 6 than to show pictures of the progress so far. We are...

Well things are certainly going in the right direction – upwards. Here are a few pictures to show the progress on the rebuilding of rooms...

As we prepare to close for the winter season – fortuitously planned between 16th May and 13th August – we can now start to reinstate...

For two weeks now, we have operating our ‘much reduced’ property, and whilst it seems strange it is nice to have guests staying on the...

We are now coming to terms with our unfortunate experience and beginning to think that it could have been a lot worse and we could have...

We are overwhelmed by all the messages of support we have received from both near and far – it is kind of everyone to give us your...

Disaster strikes – a veldt fire which appears to have started in Montagu town this afternoon has raced along the Langeberg fynbos and...