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Speaker 1: owner of Faith for You Tools and Home Dining Curator. Faith.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. It's good to have you on

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sarah Jane. I'm privileged to be your hoble

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Speaker 1: The privilege is all our Listen, tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit about exactly where is the Dwars. I'm not familiar.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we moralist sixty minutes from central Cape Town,

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Speaker 2: forty minutes from Capetown International Airport. If you come to Stellenbosch,

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Speaker 2: You will get all the scenic wine farms starting with

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, tell me why why should I come

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Speaker 1: Is this something of a hidden gem in the western Cape.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hidden gym. If you need to really visit

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Speaker 2: Sixty minutes from Cape Town, you have to come to

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Speaker 1: Give us a little bit of a history of the area.

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Speaker 2: Okay, history wife, So the Dwarts River Valley, who's on

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Speaker 1: Definitely will come. And then in terms of some of

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Speaker 1: What would be your on your top your topics of

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So did water consists of small villages towns like

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Speaker 2: We've got our fine dines. We've got our restaurants. That's

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Speaker 2: Lots of internationals coming now. They want to experience the

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Speaker 1: It's interesting, you know, faith. I'm on a lot of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so in short and sweet, most beautiful, beautiful, villagious.

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Speaker 2: They can go pick. If it's season four for for

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Speaker 2: We can do educationals. We've even got a museum where

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Speaker 1: Sure, it's been wonderful to have you on. Faith. I

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