The Royal Hotel in Riebeek (South Africa)

South Africa is the only major wine producing country that can state an actual date when wine was first made there – recorded by Van Riebeek as the 2nd February 1659. The country's first real wine region established at the end of that ...

The last Sunday several family members and we drove to Riebeek-Kasteel for lunch at the Royal Hotel. The town is about an hour's drive from Cape Town, just past Malmesbury. Before lunch most of them sauntered through the few small shops down ... Of all the bad press you sometimes read overseas about South Africa, I never felt I was endanger of being mugged or robbed at anytime, but then I purposefully didn't travel to “frontier line” areas, where, in similar areas in many ...

It's claim to fame is as one of the oldest hotels in South Africa, and it's been here since 1862. Short Street is just that. A rather short street with a dead end in the form of 'crisp', where you can pick up fresh, healthy country veg and fruit, ... Riebeek Kasteel. We treated ourselves to coffee in the gardens of the Royal Hotel, where the views are quite beautiful and, in antithesis to the buzzing courtyard of Bar Bar Black Sheep, the atmosphere sedate and slow. ...

In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck sailed into Table Bay on the north Cape Peninsula and laid the foundations of South Africa's oldest settlement, Cape Town. Three hundred and fifty years of history have been preserved in much of Cape Town's ...