Tonight we are hosting a wine tasting with a South African theme (Yes, for those who don't know, I am a South African, living in deepest Oxfordshire!)As an art teacher we taught Cape Dutch architecture c1700 and 1800's so I can't resist throwing this in.  Here is a Boschendal, a typical Cape Dutch Homstead with the vineyards in front of itThe Cape Dutch architects built long low homes, using the idea of the Dutch gable, but on a horizontal facade rather than a vertical facade. In Boschendal you … [Read more...]