DC Friday/Saturday

We had a late tee time on Friday and Malcolm and I decided to climb up the hill at the back of the villa. We reached the summit of the knobbly knoll (I think Dan said it's called a kopje) to the left of Malcolm in the photo - it was a fairly steep climb and the last bit was more of a clamber, but the views were terrific.








The size and scale of our villa can perhaps be seen a bit better from this picture - although my lens still wasn't wide enough!:






Harry earned himself a bit of a reputation. He played in his first fourball match (which he lost) on the Monday but they hadn't agreed what the stakes were beforehand. Harry, all heart, proferred the princely sum of 2 rands in the bar afterwards - having lost the front nine, back nine and the match! There are 15 rands to the £ so it was hardly a grand gesture. Here's Dan with the spoils:

On Friday night we went to the local Constantia Nek restaurant, allegedly the oldest restaurant in South Africa. There was a band playing but not many diners - although this didn't discourage Richard from getting one of the locals up to dance when the band played his request.

Our Sat Nav got us safely to Erinvale for our early morning start on Saturday - it really is a beautiful course in a magnificent setting. Some of the bunkers are pretty outrageous however - and Harry had his problems there. I'll only show one photo but there is a series of such shots available if anyone wants to see what happened next!: