Sanity arrives, just in time...

Two of my friends from Gauteng arrived yesterday for a visit of two days. I didn’t realize how much I was missing my friends down here until I saw them and couldn’t stop hugging them. I closed up the gallery and happily set off with them to our guest house, Haus Kopatsch (German), just outside of Hazyview. With neither of us knowing the area an online search and booking was done. So, we are entering the unknown.

After quite a bumpy dirt road through the beautiful natural forests into the hills behind Hazyview, we finally find the entrance gate. We follow a little winding road to the main house. The main house looks like a fake Spanish villa (not in a good way) with various rooms added on to it over the last 30 years.  The front is painted a baby blue (not the good baby blue…). A shirtless man with a BIG stomach of somewhere in his 60s is signalling from the top floor that we must go around the house. Mmmmm… Fraulein, who is quite well endowed, comes out of the house in a caftan with no bra.  Mmmmm… We are taken to our “cottage” that is 10 meters from the main house. VARIOUS dogs follow. We pass a small swimming pool decorated with fake flint stones. Mmmmm… As Fraulein takes us into the cottage she starts putting on lights, of which various doesn’t work. When she reaches light number three that doesn’t work an “ag freeking hell” escapes her mouth. Not so German after all…

The Cottage’s stoep has got a magnificent view down the valley. Exhaaaaaaaale. We open some good champagne and start laughing. That is the wonders of friends. No matter where you are, if you have good company and good champagne, anywhere is good.