We were met on arrival by Wilma who greeted us warmly and showed us round the house and garden and even left us some basic provisions. The house is a medium size bungalow located in a quiet, safe residential area of Somerset West close to the Helderberg mountains and within less than a km of Verlgelegen estate and vineyard. Cape Town, the coast and Stellenbosch/Franschoek are easily accessible.

The house is largely open plan: kitchen and comfortable sitting room with cable tv. There is a garden with plunge pool (not used by us in November) and a covered outside sitting suite with braai facilities.

The bedroom was comfortable and there was air conditioning which we did not require in November.

Essentially we found the accommodation and location suited us very well and we thought it was very good value for the 2 of us.

One condition of the rental is that you feed and water the cat, which was no great hardship. I'm no great fan of cats but this one is no trouble, it kept to itself and came and went as it pleased. All I had to do was top up the water bowl and put dry food nuts in its food bowl.