We were coming back to Cape Town later, so for now we were heading out to the Karoo... The Karoo is the beginning of nothingness and the landscape changes from the coast to hinterland, with desert/savana and mountains. The drive to Montagu was spectacular with the roads leading through wine valleys and mountains.
Montagu itself is a quaint cape-dutch colonial town. We stayed in a lovely B&B with beautiful, high ceiling rooms, oozing character with loads of original features and decor. It fits with the town perfectly and makes you feel like you are back in the 60’s.
The main draw card to Montagu are the hot springs. We were expecting to see water coming up through the ground and filter into a spa type pool. What we got were basically standard heated swimming pools, with water coming in via hot jets. You wouldn’t necessarily know these were naturally made, apart from the lack of chlorine. If you stay at the hot springs resort, you can apparently see the springs coming out of the ground (but that’s for the posh people ;)
Finding somewhere to eat dinner was a slight problem, as once the sun went down the place became a ghost town. We eventually found somewhere open, and as they had no pasta left they had to make it from scratch!!
The highlight of the stay here was breakfast the next morning. This was the most amazing breakfast we have ever had. A lovely exotic fruit platter awaited us when we arrived, with a wide variety of marmalades & jams, cereals, and cold meats also available. Then there was our cooked breakfast, which was also fabulous. Evelyn especially liked the homemade anti-drip tea cosy on the tea pot, which was so simple but practical (& looked pretty)
After brekkie, we went for a stroll along lovers lane, but due to flood damage we couldn’t walk all the way to the springs – that’s our excuse anyway ;) Still it was a lovely walk along the river where the locals were splashing around.
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