Hello my lovely! Again, I am so sorry for the radio silence but things are still pretty hectic at my end – and I think that we will be back on track again at the end of July, when all the festivities are over! So until then, please bear with me while the posts come up on various days of the week:
So we are back at Irene Country Lodge, where one day I took a wander up the hill and was met by the view of their Camdeboo Spa:
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The building where the cooks used to live over a hundred years ago. Now they are used as treatment rooms painted white with that beautiful turquoise accent colour that I always fall in love with when I visit South Africa
I thought it would be suitable for us here at the blog to visit the spa, as these beautiful buildings were built in the 19th century, which makes them antique! The treatment rooms in the photo above was where the cooks used to live and now they have obviously been turned into the most beautiful treatment rooms, where you can get a relaxing massage.
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While I was waiting for my massage I browsed all these lovely products – many of them made at Irene Farm
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On the left there is a steam sauna and a regular sauna, and a shower with all kinds of advanced settings. You walk through here to go to the pool area with its sun chairs…
This is the Camdeboo Tree which the spa is named after. Camdeboo usually only grows in the Western Cape but somehow it has found its way to the Lodge, where it has created this beautiful forest of tranquility and beauty.
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A Camdeboo Tree stretching its branches and giving us a lovely bit of shade from the intense South African sun
The café is so lovely with a fresh and appetising menu featuring for example salads and also some wonderful smoothies, that are made while you relax by the pool.
We tried the massage (heavenly) in one of the treatment rooms that had been painted white, and had all the old features left from when the house was originally built: a beautiful open fireplace and tall ceilings with old wooden beams. You can buy spa products that are made at the Irene Farm, just a hop and a skip away from the Lodge and their Milk products are just divine.
So I hope that you decide to pop by the Camdeboo Spa if you live around Pretoria, then you can admire all these beautiful old buildings in real life – a do remember to tell us all about your stay in the comment box below!