Tea at 4. At the gate of our new home, Hawks Landing at Augusta de Mist
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As you may know, from 1 August Augusta de Mist will be in the hands of her new custodians, Henk Klijn & Michel Metford Platt. With this blog we hope to keep you informed of the goings-on in Swellendam.

Moving day arrived and the very capable guys from Biddulphs were there bright and breezy to pack and load. Things went on forever. What we expected to be a simple day’s move ended up being a marathon 15-hour packing day. We loaded the car with the dog and a few suitcases and said to goodbye to our beloved Riebeek Kasteel at midnight. . After folding my seatbelt into a rosary due to driving the dark road in very heavy fog, we arrived in Swellendam way past 2am.

Unpacking was a new nightmare. The same set of guys were tired by now and the Tardis-like van just kept heaving forth more an more stuff. Unpack day finally ended at 20:00.

And so a new chapter begins. With optimism and vigour we are ready to accept the challenges and requests that the new life may hold. But first we need to unpack…