This former school is now the museum of the de Roux family who made their money farming ostrich. The museum is a collection of ostrich memorabilia and displays of a bank and a chemist from 100 years ago as well as collections of china, sewing machines etc. Unfortunately the ostrich section was closed while they prepared for a new exhibition.
A synagogue inside
The family also had a town house where they spent the weekends away from their 'Ostrich palace'. This is now a museum and is very well preserved: windows, carpets, light fittings and Lino are all original from 1901. The house has been furnished by the museum staff to show how it would have looked.
This is the rotunda of the house
The breakfast room
This house across the road is now a B&B
A church, possibly Dutch reform
We set off for Barrowdale where we would stay overnight.
The scenery along the way was impressive
We stopped at Goar for lunch in a small cafe. As we parked the car, we were approached by two young boys asking for money. This was the only the second time that children had asked us for money, the first time being in Oudtshoorn the previous evening. In Pretoria and Cape Town we had been approached only by white, male adults.
Across the road from the cafe a family were sheltering from the sun.
We drove through some impressive scenery
We were high up when we saw these palm like succulents were all over the hills
We paused at Ladysmith to take a few photos. It was a small town surrounded by hills. This is the church
And the Town Hall
The view from the car of the bleak terrain we passed through
Finally, we reached a green haven, Barrydale, a village where we would spend the night at a B&B, Tradouw.
Tradouw was not as luxurious as the other B&Bs that we had stayed at, but was adequate and had a large garden where there were silkies (thoughtfully locked away overnight so that they would not greet the dawn).
In the evening, after a Namibian beer in the B&B's bar (McCafertie's) we wandered a short distance to the only hotel in town for a good meal of lamb curry.
Pat and John on tour