From France to Franschhoek
posted by Kerry-Anne
The weather was absolutely gorgeous yesterday, and so we took a leisurely afternoon drive out to Franschhoek. The town of Franschhoek is about 45 minutes from Cape Town, and was originally settled in the late 1600s by a group of French Huguenot refugees. The town retains much of its French character, with most of the restaurants, wine farms and guest houses in the area bearing French names.I'm hoping to get to the literary festival that will be held here in two weeks' time, so I'll try to get a few more pictures for you then. For now, this is the Dutch Reformed Church in Huguenot Street - the oldest part of this church was built in 1846.
21 Comments:
Beautiful building and good composition in photo to show it off to its best advantage.The Huguenots were amazing people.
This is a beautiful building and the sky is exceptionally blue and I dare say bluer than our sky at its best. I wonder what causes that.
Great photo - reminds me of a great day we had there eating wonderful food and drinking terrific wine - and all so cheap!!! The wineries are such fun with all their tasting bars.
Abraham - in Australia we have the same blue skies. I think the atmosphere is cleaner in the southern hemisphere or something - a very unscientific guess???
Gorgeous place Franschoek. Miss the wine...
Oh well, I was wondering if you do requests. I'm from Grabouw - a very beautiful drive from Franschoek. Any chance you could go there the next time the sun shines. Iona wines are absolutely stunning and the views from up there are not bad too.
Beautiful!
I use a 75-300mm zoom lens by Canon for my Canon EOS Digital Rebel cameras. I have two. The last one is the Rebel XTi. And this lens was less than $200.00 at Walmart.
Now, however, I need to tell you that the raccoon picture was taken with the normal lens that comes with the camera. It is an 18-55mm lens and kind of wide angle and has a built in macro. I was as close as 12 inches from the face of the raccoon when I took the picture.
Thank you for stopping. I appreciate your visits. I just posted a turkey head in all its vivid coloring. Paul might like that too. Also taken with the same lens as the raccoon.
Abraham Lincoln
Brookville Daily Photo
Seems to be a beautiful little place. I'm looking forward to seeing your next photos from Franschhoek.
This looks gorgeous. What's the temperature there right now?
hello kerry-anne! how are you? I must apologize for not writing any comments lately.
I love the mountain behind the church.
Lovely pictures you got there Kerry-Anne.
Huguenots were also responsible for hte first wave of immigration into London's East End
What beautiful colors! I'll be happy to see your next photos of this place.
What a neat photo.
>abraham and jules, i did a bit of googling, and this is all i could find about the blue sky issue:
"The precise shade of blue depends on how much light is scattered by large particles in the air compared to the small air molecules. Large particles scatter all colours equally, so they wash out the blue colour and make it less intense. This includes water vapour in the atmosphere, so the sky is bluer in drier and less polluted areas."
You can read the original page here.
Most intriguing...
>good woman, scottish wine not up to standard then? :)
Yes, of course we can do requests. Next time we head past Grabouw on one of our adventures, we'll be sure to get some pretty pictures for you. We used to go kloofing at Nuweberg quite a lot, but haven't done that for a couple of years. There's some really lovely scenery in the area. And the first thing that comes to mind is "Two a day". :D
>abraham, thanks for the info about the lens - Paul's trying out a friend's Canon lens at the moment, so we'll see how that goes. Unfortunately things like that are a lot more expensive here, so he has to choose and do his research carefully.
>lynn, the day-time temperature has been around 23 to 25 for the last few days (winter has withdrawn for a while), although the forecast for Saturday is 30! This is Cape Town - she can do as she likes...
>ham, thanks, interesting snippet of info, i didn't know that. Fashion AND history - you're a multi-talented chap. :)
Thanks Kerry-Anne for blue sky info - that makes sense -
the air in Australia is very dry and away from big cities very clean!!!!
What a beautiful place!
You captured it well.
This surely is a beautifully captured shot. I like the pure white building against the blue sky.
Angela
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