Day 1: Cape Town to Darling
The man who put Darling firmly on the map is the famous satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys; or maybe we should say woman, as his legendary ‘Evita se Perron’ is named after his most unforgettable female persona.
Tannie Evita Bezhuidenhout’s restaurant-cum-playhouse-cum-art gallery opened in 1996 and since then this pretty, delightfully entertaining and certainly colourful Swartland dorp has never looked back.
Darling is charming throughout the year, escaping the Cape’s summer and winter extremes with average summer temperatures of 24°C. Plan your visit during spring if you want to stop and smell the flowers, darling, though birders, butter, sweets and beer aficionados as well as San spirit searchers will find their piece of heaven year-round.
The Darling Brew taste room is a top class restaurant that combines simple and rustic culinary delights with quality craft beer. They offer a tasting of 13 hand crafted Darling Craft Beers and once or twice a week this is combined with a dinner with the resident brewmaster with a speciality menu to suit the beers on offer.
Everyone loves a good road trip – and with a country as beautiful as South Africa, it’s easy to see why. Taking to the road is ingrained...