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Baie dankie vir die gasvryheid. Sien weer!!!

Posted on Oct 5, 2012 | 0 comments

I read in our  guest book :  ‘ Thank you for the hospitality. You’ll see us again!!!’ The biggest compliment a...

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We’re African – why are we so adverse to bartering?

Posted on Aug 5, 2012 | 0 comments

If there is one thing that gets me hot under the collar it is when a prospective guest wants to bargain me down.  In the winter it...

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Bergsig, George

Posted on Jul 19, 2012 | 0 comments

Bergsig developed out of the farm Niepothsdale – in 1894 the property was sold to Koos Stander, mayor of George from 1926 to 1932. In...

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An arsenal beneath the fourposter bed…

Posted on Jul 19, 2012 | 0 comments

Guests I’ll always remember? Well, shortly after I opened doors I received a booking for three policeman to share the family room....

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When Winnie and Robert came to stay…

Posted on Jun 19, 2012 | 0 comments

Certainly one of the joys of running a guesthouse, is that you never know quite who will walk through the door… One of my favorite...

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South African Garden And Home, October 1998. Romancing an era – a long neglected historic George House gets a make-over…

Posted on Dec 31, 1998 | 0 comments

(Text and photographs by Alex Cremer) Because it was partly hidden behind high boundary walls, the true beauty of Fairview only became...

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