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Springfontein House - Accommodation in Springfontein, Free State, South Africa
Springfontein House Accommodation in
Springfontein, Free State. Those with a taste
for fine living will find a kindred spirit in Graeme, a man whose love
of house and garden, countryside, good company, food and wine now sets
the tone at Springfontein House. He was once a gallery owner in
Johannesburg – a far cry from his first, 26-year career as a London
stockbroker – and his personal art collection includes a rather racy
Battiss, an inky Sekoto and other originals by South African artists,
both established and emerging.
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| Price: 2 |
| Bed and breakfast |
| 1 double 2 twins 1 family suite with 2 bedrooms |
African
rugs, powdery sofas, bowls of dried rose petals and side tables
proffering porcelain complete the sandy-coloured sitting room. Through
glass doors is a slate-floored, frond-filled sunroom and an
incarnadine dining room, with Georgian tables and silver candelabras.
In the bedrooms the curtains are silk, the towels soft and the comfy
beds have crisp linen, plump pillows and mohair throws. Outside, white
walls dazzle and creepers climb above the stoep; there’s a bricked
patio and colourful flower-beds, a pool and a series of fishponds. But
the reason you come here is to be looked after, and arriving from the
biscuity veld, you’ll feel lucky indeed. Graeme
will explain about biking, hiking, rare bird-watching, fishing,
sailing on Gariep Dam.
The
village of Springfontein is 3 kilometres off the main N.1 highway on
the old Pretoria / Cape Town tar road. It is 145 kilometres south of
Bloemfontein and 80 kilometres north of Colesberg. As such it is
excellently positioned for travellers needing a stopover on their
journey between Cape Town and Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban or
Pretoria and Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth or visa versa.