Farm walk: Swallow Hill Farm

Beauty of the Overberg in summer, walking the fields.

The week started with a much cooler morning in Greyton, slightly overcast and a relief from the 40
degrees we had experienced over the weekend.

After the usual huge
mug of plunger coffee and a rusk we walked the perimeter farm path and the short sharp incline which kicks off the walk certainly got me going.

My thighs were still feeling the effect of the Loerkop Trail and they felt heavy.

The path also took us into the indigenous renosterveld on the hill behind the house, which is small leaved evergreen shrubland only found here in the Cape.

I joined Bri and Di at the Under the Mountain Yoga Studio in Greyton, a cottage with a restful yoga space. It was a class with Jonathan Blumberg.

What a pleasure to work on the floor, my feet loved me, it was a class within the Iyengar system and I found it harnessed my breath and relaxed me.
A gentle but tough one and a half hours.

• Walking log: 26th January

4.5 km walk around Swallow Hill wine farm. 

And stepping into the maze between the rows of tempranillo and viognier grapes.

Yoga class.

Total kilometres to date: 134

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~Charles Dickens