Walk among 250-year-old trees, dine in style at this iconic Cape Town hotel

It's Wednesday afternoon in the Cape Town suburb of Constantia.

Nearby, parents are jostling for position at one of half a dozen school pickup points. Quite likely, they're there to ferry dishevelled children from their first extramural activity to an extra extramural activity.

A few minutes away, the city's N2 and M3 highways are already slowing, as tired office workers attempting to beat the rush inadvertently become it for the third time that week.