As we get older, we start to realise what is truly important and what really matters and counts in life.

My family is so important to me and I love getting to spend time with them. This week my mom and I embarked on a Mother Daughter adventure together. We did a road trip down to Cape Town that took us two days and made memories that will last a lifetime.

I forgot the expression: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” And I was certainly reminded of it on this trip. We sang on the top of our voices to music we share a love for, we stopped to take photographs of quirky signs, breathtaking scenery and typically South African scenery, like donkey drawn carts on the highway.

On Monday afternoon, after we had travelled for eight hours, we stopped 12 kms outside of Colesberg, at the quaint Kuilfontein Farm & Stable Cottages. Everything about this place is beautiful, cosy and welcoming. We freshened up a little, had a hot cup of tea and freshly farm baked banana bread. 

There truly is something warm and inviting about the people in the Karoo and the food is outstanding. We devoured a three course meal of Sprinbok Carpaccio to start, mom had the roast lamb and I had the roast quail with freshly picked vegetables and ended it off with a melt in your mouth, creamy coffee pannacotta and plum coulis.  I literally rolled into bed exhausted but satisfied.

In true Karoo farm style living, I woke up to a rooster perched near a windmill crowing it’s little head off.  We quickly packed up ready for another eight hour drive to Cape Town, but not before enjoying a delicious farm breakfast complete with fresh farm butter melting on cheese muffins steaming from the oven.

It was amazing.

Mom and I headed off into the Karoo, stopping at quirky art galleries and taking in all the sights. Whoever says the Karoo is drab, needs to reexamine their eyesight. I had a Mary Poppins moment, where I felt like I had driven into a bright painting – an expanse of the typical landscape of dotted sheep and windmills, red earth, blonde grass, green scrub, purple mountains and blue sky.

There is something special about coming over the rise on the N1 and suddenly seeing Table Mountain. Cape Town, you truly are a beautiful city and while I am here, I hope to never take your breath taking scenery for granted.

Take a peek at some of my photos from the road trip here. 

Love,
Bailey