So we published Karoo Roads – Tales from South Africa’s Heartland. One of the few positive spin-offs of the pandemic is time to sit down and read for pure pleasure.
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And with all that home-time, we flipped through TV channels, watched news broadcasts and then, praise the heavens, turned back to good old books. With Covid-19 in 2020, we all spent more time at home. This is a guide you keep in your cubby hole when you travel through our region, a book that will give you the info you need to be more than just a day-tripper or, gasp, a tourist.
So we made a book called Road Tripper – Eastern Cape Karoo, which basically says it all.
Each seems to have the sublime knack of telling a good story – which had us hooked from Day One, all those years ago. Middelburg, Nieu-Bethesda, Aberdeen, Klipplaat, Willowmore, Steytlerville, Jansenville, Pearston, Somerset East, Bedford, Tarkastad, Hofmeyr, Steynsburg and Cradock all lie in the Karoo Heartland.įarmers, hoteliers, restaurateurs, fishermen, writers, photographers, artists, musicians, cooks and crafters live here. We are a cluster of 14 towns and settlements, with the best people, the biggest horizons and most diverse farm spaces in South Africa. Living in Cradock, we find ourselves at the hub of South Africa’s most underrated road-trip region: the Karoo Heartland. It kept the same glossy format, only bulkier, with more stories. Reader support took Karoo Keepsakes through three print runs until 2013, when we launched Karoo Keepsakes II. “If you can’t stand the sight of wide-angle landscapes, quirky little cantina-like padstalle at roadside, flashes of springbok rushing across the plains, the pure peace of waking up on a midwinter’s morning on a Karoo farm, the call of the super jackal at sunset and the lunchtime laughter of the great story-tellers of the Eastern Cape Midlands, then simply pass on by.” It contained colourful mini-bites of narrative, in collections of people, places, animals that dwell here, the odd and the historic. The first book of ‘takeaway treats’, Karoo Keepsakes, was designed as a travelling companion that would eventually end up on your coffee table. And we kept a constant lookout for the Storyteller’s Delight: something or someone with an eccentric twist. Then we began to explore the backroads, villages, people, cultures, farms, mountains, railway sidings, beasts, weather patterns and classic literature of the Karoo. Just more than 20 years ago we knew nothing about the Karoo, that endless dry country that spans the midriff of South Africa.
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