Stop and Smell the Flowers
After winter rains, the weather has warmed up and there is no better time to take the slow road through the Northern-and Western Cape, and revel in the blaze of flowers and splendid platteland hospitality this area is so famous for.
Which is why I found myself on the Cape to Namibia Route or rather, in my case, the Namibia to Cape. The small 10 000-hectare Goegap Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Springbok in the Northern Cape has one of the best flower displays in the far north, and slightly further south there’s good reason to take a break in Kamieskroon. For two months of the year, the small town dons its ball gown and is ablaze with Namaqua daisies and gousblommetjies (Gazania krebsiana).
At all times of the year, Kuiervreugde coffee shop – ‘where people come together in good cheer’ – is full of colour and charm. When I arrive, Peet Kruger is putting the finishing touches to the paintwork of a garden gnome, one of several that join the inspirational sayings and colourful murals outside.
Peet and his wife or handmade, mostly by the Kruger couple.
