When she was a child, Lodine Kriel and her family would occupy the same table at the Swiss Farm Excelsior in Franschhoek for Sunday lunch
Every weekend when she was a child, Lodine Kriel and her family would occupy the same table at the Swiss Farm Excelsior in Franschhoek for Sunday lunch.
This is despite the fact that the 57-year-old beauty, now known as Le Franschhoek Hotel and Spa, compares very favourably in terms of setting with the grand dame of Constantia and one of the loveliest hotels in the world, the Cellars-Hohenort.Le Franschhoek is generally overlooked because it is literally off the beaten tourist track.
The end of WWII proved another landmark year because that’s when Maske decided he’d had enough of the droughtplagued Karoo and recalled a small mountain-ringed town where he’d played rugby as a schoolboy.Franschhoek, he told his wife, was the antithesis of Aberdeen because it was verdant and a river with clear, sweet water flowed perenially through the valley.
Mr Hinder, however, was experiencing some marital strife. Faced with an ultimatum from his wife to leave Franschhoek forthwith, he sold the place to Maske. “People said he was mad as he began excavating a huge site below the existing facilities,” recalls Ludwig, and indeed the project was nearly scuppered at the start.
He was ably supported by his wife, Beryl, and the rest of the family pitched in wherever and whenever needed.“Our dining room could seat 200 people and there were usually two sittings per meal.“We were almost self-sustaining with the farm providing fruit, vegetables, pork, eggs, poultry and milk.
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