miscellaneous rambling

Just 45 minutes drive out of Cape Town is the college town of stellenbosch, which in addition to the university, also is wineland. They winelands are beautiful, similar to Napa, and Niagra, but with the addition of the mountains in the background. What is the best thing about the area, is that the wineries are mostly older, and each have their own flair to it. Most are done in Old European decor, some of the wine tasting is in old, dank cellars. The wine was excellent, and so cheap. I wanted to ship a case back, but the shipping was about 5x the price of the wine I was going to buy, so well... didn't do it.. but we brought back 6 bottles.
The town is nice, and has great food. I don't know how much studying I would have gotten done if I went to university here.