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'Where to?' you mey ask your trusty steed, and may we suggest Wellington, that pretty little farming town on the other side of the N1 to Paarl. It was established by the French Huguenots in 1688, and for many years was the gateway to the interior.
First called Limietvallei, then Wagenmakersvallei, it finally got its forever name in 1840 from Sir George Napier, then governor of the Cape, after the Duke of Wellington trounced Napoleon at Waterloo. History has many threads.
It is a place of rolling hills and cool temperatures; slow village mornings and afternoons seeping into evenings of fine wine, food and friendship, all cocooned by the