My venture

We have moved to Italy...specifically to the Tuscany.....why....scenery change....and to start a new venture...what exactly that is...well...keep reading...and i promise i will keep you posted....once we arrived in Italy the priority was to organise a Christmas tree....get to know the shops where we could buy our necessities...find a nail salon, check the closest vet...etc etc....so, please once again, accept my aplogies for not writing earlier..... This blog i would like to dedicate to Christmas in Tuscany...the entire family together...truly special....my sister was here from the Philippines, with her husband and their daughter, my Mutti is with us, mom and dad, Ben, Sofia, Kim and I....so yes, all together..... Christmas festives started with us making our traditional Swiss Christmas cookies....we made Mailaederli, Spitzbube, Basler Brunsli and Zimtsterne.....now you might be like...what the hell are those....so let me share a bit... Mailaenderli...simple, butter, sugar and flour b...

As promised....the last blog on Franschhoek is....random rest...and it is good stuff...otherwise...guess what...i would not be writing about it...i guess one can say...i would not be wasting your time.....so where to start....friday lunch after arrival at Cape Town airport we drove to the Vrede en Lust wine estate, we wanted to eat lunch at Lust deli....and as always...it did not disappoint...we sat outside, it was extremly hot...but cannot complain....we sipped some wine...i had a pinot grigio and kim had the riesling...mutti also opted for the pinot grigio.....to eat....we shared a charcuterie platter and a cheese platter....and they were very delicious...beautifully presented and came with a variety of three breads, crispy fresh white baguette, whole weat bread and crispy rye bread....man....so damn good.....i forgot to take the pic in the beginning...so i need to share the pic of the left overs...sorry..... Cheese and charcuterie platters To end off lunch...kim opted for the Irish...

Now this restaurant deserves an individual blog...dedicated just to the foodies there....a friend of mine had gone to this restaurant and highly recommended it, so i actually made a Sunday lunch booking on the terrace.... The wine estate is beautiful and glamours, really nice tree avenue....just a wow factor when you entered. Once parked we passed the tasting place, then the deli restaurant before entering the Werf restaurant. Mutti posing in the gardens Werf restaurant entrance I must say...i am so glad we were on the terrace on such a beautiful day...over looking the vegetable garden, what a stunning setting, inaide in the enclosed glass patio would have been my second choice...totally inside...last option, hahaha. Of course we ordered some wine, the rose bubbly for the ladies and the men opted for the Rose Blanc de Noir.....delicious....refreshing...perfect for the hot weather....before i start with the food...here is a pic of the landscape Landscape Landscape First up was a ...

So....one last trip before moving...immigrating....to.....well....i guess some of you might not know....we are immigrating to Italy.....actually very soon.....December, but before that, let me share our last weekend...in this blog....the MCC and Champagne Festival, it was long over-due that we visited the Method Cap Classique and Champagne Festival in Franschoek, held every year at the beginning of December on a Saturday and Sunday (normally first weekend in December). We have been in South Africa for 18.5 years and somehow we never managed to go to this festival...well...in all fairness for 6.5 of those years i was actually not allowed to drink....hahaha.....moving on now...let's get to the point...the bubbly festival.... So we arrived in Franschhoek on Friday.....and we decided to go an enjoy the bubbly festival on the Saturday, good thing that we booked the tickets ahead of time cause it was sold out.....the festival opens at 12pm and lasts until 5pm. So we arrived promptly at ...

So...i have thought long and hard about this one...and this definitely was not written in one day....in fact this is probably not the last time i am updating this....in fact...i think this blog will be continually edited....but one needs to start one day...what is a bucket list...i guess most people know....but for those that do not know...it is things that you want to do before you die...for me...it is a lot of travelling...places i would like to see....it could also be something you want to do...for example to sky dive...which i must admit...was on my bucket list at some stage but i scrapped it...why...they say...once you have children, you cannot be selfish and do such risky things....and somehow...i do agree....gliding from a mountain is still on the bucket list though, cause you glide, which means it is open before you start.... You might be thinking...why is she writing this bucket list on a blog...well...because a piece of paper gets lost.....and on the ipad, it can get erased...