Voelgesang Farmstay

What a delight it was to stay at Voelgesang!  It was so much more than what we had anticipated.

Sadly, what was described as self catering was in fact "no catering". The couple running the place were very friendly and pleasant enough, but a bedroom accessed via other (unused) bedrooms, a shared bathroom in the main house with the owners and the offer to make ourselves coffee in their private kitchen is not as expected. Nothing in town was open except a run-down bar serving drunken agricultural workers, and the carefully prepared cool-box contents for an evening braai had to be dumped in the absence of any facilities to cook or even store the contents overnight. The main house was clean if a bit old-world and fusty, but the surrounding farm, which we were invited to walk on, was another story, with dilapidated staff houses, barns, scrap and farm junk lying around, children and overcrowded workers accommodation with half-naked children playing in the dirt around scavenged animal carcasses and knee-high rubbish mounds of nappies, bottles and cans (maybe we walked where we weren't meant to). Disappointing to say the least, we left at 6AM given that any breakfast - self-cooked or not - was not an option, and put distance between us an the place. Shame, but to be avoided.