{Day Out} Pretville

South Africa over the past few years has undergone a change in the music and film industry and slowly there has been more recognition of what is available locally. 

A while back, a friend of mine went to Pretville, located in Hartebeesport for an engagement photo-shoot and told me, knowing I love all things old fashioned and vintage that this is a spot i have to go to! From what I understood at the time this was a spot that had a museum a milkshake cafe and was inspired by the 50's (I was already sold). But when I went to Pretville for myself I discovered that Pretville is the location where the Afrikaans musical based in the 50's "Pretville" was filmed by Paul Kruger who happens to be the owner of Hartiwood Films (you may recognise other movies of his; French Toast and Liefling). This Film set has now been opened to the public where you can visit a museum, watch the Pretville or French Toast movie at the bi-scope or have a milkshake or two! 

This was my first visit and will certainly not be the last! I will wait to watch the Pretville movie in Pretville with a chocolate milkshake for my next visit!

 I look forward to seeing this theme park grow and what Pretville has to offer in the future. 

♥

Until next time!

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Pretville │Hartiwood Films │ French Toast │Liefling

A Cup of tea solves everything...

Or in this case, a Tea Tasting!

I have been to a few tastings in the past but never have I been to a tasting for Tea. My mother in law arranged for my sister-in-law and i to join her for a tea tasting over the weekend at the TeeStube Lounge In Pretoria.

I can now say I have an appreciation for tea which I didn't have before. I went into this tea tasting knowing that tea is made from Tea leaves but I didn't know that these tea leaves were actually fermented to get your white, green and black tea. 

Since white tea is the first and purest form of Tea you can get, we got to taste it first. I must admit initially I thought the white tea had no flavour until I tried the variants of black teas. Only then did I realise how subtle the flavour of white tea really was and it could quite easily be a tea I would drink more often. 

We were also given an opportunity to choose two types of Teas to taste and so I decided to try the "Gummibarchen" Gummy bear Herbal/ Fruit Tea which as you can guess had Gummy Bear sweets in it. All fruit and herbal teas have an undercurrent of Hibiscus and apple in them which is why these tea's tend to turn pink. Who would of thought you can drink your sweets?

For my second choice, I chose the Summertime Rooibos Tea which had quite a few flavours in it starting off with a base of Rooibos tea and additional unique flavours included. One of them being Rhubarb.

"There is a great deal of Poetry and Sentiment in a chest of Tea"

~Ralph Waldo Emerson