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Take the turn-off!

Up and down, to and fro

When I was growing up, we would regularly visit my aunt and her husband in Kestell in the Eastern Free State. This panorama on the road between Fouriesburg and Clarens reminds of those trips and my vantage point from the back seat of my dad’s Valiant.

To me, Free State-born but a Capetonian for 30 years, the road north used to have one name: the N1. You don’t look left or right,

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