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A working AGA in the dining room = an A for authenticity Bartro’s Christmas pudding’s out of the AGA = an A+. A ++’s for story driven year ahead

It’s been a year of great reviews for the hotel and, bar none, the staff get a nod for their genuine pleasantness and goodwill.

The festive season is a wonderful time to be curating an art hotel.

HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS. Roger Lucey will be in song and story telling mode in the Belanti in wonderful opportunity to share in the journey of an extraordinary artist on Friday night the 28 November.

The poster is out ! Barrydales arty , hands on celebration of the art of analog photograpy runs from the 19th -20th December.

With this event going from strength to strength this is a brilliant weekend to be in Barrydale. The hotel is fully booked but this is just a heads up re the program

Prauge, Athens, Moscow...Barrydale. Who would have thought

We've chosen the Beatles 'When i'm 64 as the theme track for our 64+ incentive program. Unlike Paul McCartney who was just 16 when he wrote 64 we know a thing or two about being 64....

After a long wait we finally get to host Tim Plewman in the Belanti. He'll be performing his new show, Epilogue co written with John Smeddle. A piece of work that reviewers have described as 'sweaving an often hilarious web, intertwined with life, death and everything in between'.

It's the one room name that befuddles people (unless they are out of the advertising industry). "What is GVW?" we are sometimes asked. "It's not a 'what' it is a 'whom'. GVW = Graham Victor Warsop, the celebrated creative director and South Advertising icon. He's a friend. When we bought the hotel he offered to do a bedroom room". Or was it the other way around ?). It's one of the 17...

"Drawing is not what one sees, but what one can make others see." ~ Degas

If you look out from the hotel front verandah or one of the upstairs room balconies, across and beyond the lavender field right across the street you'll see a broad field of green (mainly olive trees), that's the home of Yamu Botanicals and the Karooljie property which is currently under a rapid transformation into a world class herbal resource.

We look forward to a late September return of the recipes from Cranemere farm near Pearston Graaff Reinet. It's all part of our ongoing celebration of the Art of Karoo cooking.

It was the 3rd year in a row for a not to be missed sporting, food, music, lightness and laughter weekend conceived and conducted by the legendary Stormers coach.

Klein Karoo Winter Special - Enjoy a winter getaway of peace, tranquility and the home away from home hospitality of the Karoo Art Hotel.

After an iconic visit by Bobby Kennedy to Stellenbosch University's Simonsberg residence in 1966 they started calling themselves 'Die Withuis'. The name has stuck. When Die Withuis alumni (76-80) visited us we followed suite with our own name change.

Barrydale to Heidelburg and back via the Tradouw Pass (98km) is the perfect training ride to put miles in the legs while earning points with your non riding partner

702 Talkshow host Reuben the Screwman returns with LBB2 (Life Before Barrydale 2).

One of the joys of owning SA's leading Art Hotel is the grand parade of fascinating people who pass this way. And here comes the blues legend Doc Maclean to etch another memory into the hand hewn beams that seperate the bar from the Barrydale room above. This is one night when the sound of the bar below wont be an issue - it's Doc's room

The Barrydale Poetry Club staged a homage to the Scottish poet Robbie Burns. There were some brilliant readings of Robbie Burn's work by members of the club and Derek and the kitchen did a magnificent job of the prep of the Haggis which was the feature of traditional Burns night menu.