Colesberg

© Roger de la Harpe

If you are of a certain age you should be able to remember what it was like going on holiday in the 'olden days': leaving in the dark with the whole family packed into a Renault Dauphine, or Ford Consul, or Valiant, if you were lucky, or perhaps a Barracuda, if your father was positively rakish.


Your mom would have packed padkos to feed you all and your dad would have made sure there was water for the radiator. Inevitably someone would get carsick, and because these trips were usually during the summer school holidays for sure the tar would be melting by the time you reached your midway point more often than not somewhere deep in the Great Karoo, And if you were travelling on the N1 you would always stop in Colesberg.

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