The trip that convinced me it’s worth flying to South Africa for winter sun

Franschhoek offers stunning landscapes – vineyards surrounded by rugged mountains - (Getty/iStock)

You know the conversation. The clocks have just gone back and it’s dark at 4.30. The weather forecast is for endless thick cloud and incessant rain, you’ve switched the central heating to all day and it’s so bloody grey and gloomy:

“What about getting some winter sun?”