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                <title>Cape Town harbour cruise in a wheelchair</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Cape Town is a city of spectacular sights! If in a chair, take a cruise from the V&amp;A waterfront. The city and table mountain will float by. Many wine and safari tours are accessible too!]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Colombeat Constantia Uitsig</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[La Colombeat Constantia Uitsig wine estate is now 50% owned by a black empowerment co-operative. The French style food at La Colombe was of a high standard – 'jalousie de langoustines' anyone? - with excellent service on a garden terrace by the vineyards. There is another restaurant (The Constantia Uitsig) overlooking the vineyards and a more informal restaurant (the River Café) in the courtyard behind the wine shop – noisy when we were there because of ‘the ladies who lunch’.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Wine Route</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[An organised drive through the vineyards and estates of Paarl and Stellenbosch. You get to taste wines at the estates, and can buy wine directly from them. A great way to see these delightful towns, the mountains and vineyards, and get some advice on SA wines. A picnic at Boschendal is highly recommended, but there are many other places to eat.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Moyo, Spier Wine Estate</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Eat under the stars, in a treehouse or lounge around on the huge outdoor sofas and enjoy tribal dancing and other performances.  Under 12s can join in a drumming workshop (parents allowed too!) or take an ecology tour around the grounds - there's a cheetah centre on the estate too.  Almost forgot, Spier Estate also has a great deli; buy food and wine for lunch and picnic at the lakeside.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Franschhoek</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you can go to just one of the Cape vineyard towns, Franschhoek is much quieter and less tourisity than Stellenbosch. The town’s name means French corner, and it really feels like Provence has come to South Africa. There’s a lovely restaurant called Le Quartier Francais which serves divine lunches. And if the driving gets too much and you want to stay for a few glasses of wine, there is a charming guesthouse behind the restaurant.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Colombe Restaurant, Constantia Uitsig</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[OK, so this isn't strictly in Cape Town - it's out in the wine district of Constantia which is a 40-minute or so drive out of the city...but it's so, so, worth the journey. Constantia Uitsig is one of a number of vineyards that you drive by, and like many of them it has its own restaurant and accommodation. <br><br>We sat around the pool and had what has to have been one of the best meals I've ever eaten, all washed down with the vineyard's own wine (which we then went and bought half a case of). The service was incredible, the food quite gorgeous and the scenery stunning. Doesn't really get any better. And the total cost? Well, it was a couple of years ago now, but the bill for two with wine came to around £60 - which is a fortune by South African standards - but a bargain in the grand scheme of things. For a real treat, you could stay in one of their rooms as well but that was a treat too far for us.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Slaley Vineyards</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Free wine tasting of some excellent and reasonably priced wines set in the beautiful countryside outside Stellenbosch.<br><br>The olive oil is wonderful for dipping fresh bread.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Delaire Winery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A winery in the Stellenbosch area. Slightly off the beaten track, in fact virtually at the top of a mountain. Wines, especially the sauvignon blanc are fantastic but pale in comparison with the views from up there.]]></description>
                
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