New season

New season, new blog, new direction. We've given our website a new image (thanks Johann) and we don't think winter is quite over, but the sunny days are promising spring, flowers and plenty of energy at Saint du Barrys. On the way back from Cape Town and Vredendal we saw the beginning of flowers along the side of the road between Clanwilliam and Klawer: between Clanwilliam and Citrusdal the flowers spread up the hill into the fields.

This year's rain has been more soft than hard, more nurturing than stormy. Perhaps spring will reflect this.

We hope that all our guests, new ones, those who return regularly, and all who are interested in the Cederberg region and its towns will make this blog a regular read. Your comments and feedback will be appreciated. 

We're completing the re-thatching: take a look at facebook (we've set up a new presence there, too - thanks, Johann...), and we've upgraded bathrooms, so we're ready for another season. We're expecting Kohin-Acts, a Christian outreach group to stay over while they're in town this week. Since the beginning of the year we've had a new gardener, Sydney, who has made a huge difference to many facets of Saint du Barrys. He has gardened, painted, learned to iron - even those sheets with the fitted corners! Thanks Sydney! And Mandy , our housekeeper, is getting married this year. Perhaps some guests will be in time to see the end of the reception in the garden.

The Piekonierskloof Pass is open: a grand new safe road over the mountain with plenty of space to pass, now, places to stop and look at the view. This is a huge imrpovement and benefit to the area. And we hear rumours of work starting on the dam wall...

Please visit Saint du Barrys blog again: we'll be adding regularly.

As I write this, the sky is clear and blue, the Cederberg range sharp and deep, with many shades of green and blue, the temperature somewhere in the mid-teens C, and a light aircraft is droning high up. The view from there must be magnificent.