"Behave! Or I'll send you to McGregor", as our Breede Valley neighbours would warn their errant children. Maybe they still do, for little has changed in McGregor - the best preserved and most complete example of mid-nineteenth century townscape in the Cape Province. With its traditional, whitewashed, thatched cottages set in quiet streets, surrounded by mountains, wildlife, and wine estates, McGregor really is one of the jewels of South Africa.
Here on McGregor Village website, we have all you need for anything from a short getaway to a permanent relocation. The accommodation, restaurants, artists and healers, the hikes and the history - and a large range of cottages, farms and other properties for sale in the McGregor area, with our own agent to help you.
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- Nature and Hiking
- Colour Satellite Weather Image
- Hands on Harvest festival 2012
- McGregor Unistars shine at Festival
- Why Visit McGregor?
- The Little Cottage
- The Noddy Bus
- Internet Hotspots
Nature and Hiking
We have been extensively updating our Nature and Hiking page and, in addition, now have a section on the page for FoV - the Friends of Vrolijkheid. The latter now has ready for download editions 37 - 47 of the FoV newsletter, The Rooikat, a comprehensive list of birds spotted at Vrolijkheid, and an image gallery.
Colour Satellite Weather Image
Our weather page now has a stunning colour feed from the Meteosat 0-degree satellite to compliment the meteogram and forecasts from Yr.No. Supplied by EUMESTAT, it is updated several times a day to show the cloud cover over South Africa.
View the latest forecasts on our McGregor's Weather page.
Hands-on Harvest festival 2012
Experience the magic of harvest for a day – without having to quit your day job! Grape Picking - Bunch Sorting - Stomping your own grapes - Grape vs Wine Tasting - Harvest Market - Vineyard Tractor Trips - Must tasting - Wine blending experience - Wine tasting by Horse Cart . . . and much more
Details and link to the Hands-on Harvest website on the McGregor Events Calendar.
McGregor Unistars shine at Brass Band Festival
At the annual brass band Festival, held at the Athlone Stadium, Cape Town in March, the McGregor Unistars achieved a highly credible second place for their solo performance in the 2011 Western Cape finals.
Dressed in their colourful orange and green uniform, the Unistars have reached the finals every year since 2001, when the Festival began.
Why Visit McGregor?
McGregor has a selection of fine eateries, from well-known McGregor Restaurants featured in Country Life, through home-cooking in country hotels to tasty cafes.
McGregor Accommodation includes country inns, bed and breakfast (B&B), self catering cottages, back-packers, retreat centres, wine estates, from low-cost to four star luxury.
McGregor is very arty, with several art galleries and many fine McGregor artists. And, of course, our very own permanent Art Route McGregor.
The village is also about healing, so visit our many therapists, healers, masseuse and McGregor spiritual centres.
Events in McGregor include Wacky Wine Weekend, Robertson Slow Festival, Wine on the River and, of course, our own McGregor Food and Wine Festival. McGregor is very much a part of the longest wine route in the world - Route 62. See our McGregor Events Calender.
The Little Cottage - approved by Tokyo Sexwale!
McGregor Alternative Technology's very special cottage, designed to show what can be acheived within the RDP low-cost, housing specifications
McGregor Noddy Bus!
Thanks to Mr Awie Page, visitors to the village of McGregor now have a new way of getting around. The all-wood Noddy Bus!
Internet Hotspots
Do you want to check your emails, work online or just surf the net during your stay in McGregor? We now have 3 BreedeNet Hotspots in the village, which must make us the best connected dorp in the country!
McGregor Food and Wine Festival • Sat, Aug 25th - • There’s so much more to McGregor! |
- About Villagers Properties
- Property Blog
- Relocating to McGregor
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McGregor’s longest established, independent, real estate agency, teamed up with McGregor’s original and most popular tourism website – bringing you a truly McGregor village property service!
Twenty four years ago, Corrie van der Colff and his family decided the time had come to leave the Jo’Burg hustle and bustle behind forever, and head off in search of a more tranquil
lifestyle - and what better place to find sanctuary than in the little village of McGregor!
Being a highly qualified and experienced town planner, Corrie had all the right skills to found Villagers Properties, which he did in 1990. Like all associated with the business, Corrie became very much a part of the local community . . .
Relocating to McGregor
After enjoying your visits to McGregor and sampling our excellent range of tourist accommodation and restaurants, perhaps you'll decide to relocate here. After all, McGregor is less than 2 hours from Cape Town, and yet is healthy, beautiful, safe Klein Karoo.
Villagers Properties, McGregor’s longest-established estate agent, have a comprehensive range of McGregor Property and real estate for sale, including cottages, houses, resorts, farms and businesses. You can read more about our McGregor property sales on our Real Estate pages, and then contact us by email, phone, Skype or enquiry form. Our agents look forward to helping you.
To help you when you are here, be it as tourist or resident, we also have a page of phone numbers (over 150 of them!) and copies of the Breede River and Western Cape Development Plans etc for you to download.
Click an image or browse our properties for sale in McGregor.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view itCorrie: Cell 082 658 2379 | Office: 023 625 1322
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