When you book accommodation online, you never actually know what you’re going to get. Jon Minster remembers an eventful stopover in the Karoo… Read more:
Elliot and Francis, our two boys, immediately gave it a new name: Weird Farm. It was July in the hilly scrubland south of Willowmore in the Eastern Cape. A sleety rain fell, and it felt like dusk even though it was midday.
We’d left the highway and we’d been following a bumpy dirt track for nearly half an hour, wheels slipping on stone, opening and closing wonky gates, past farm equipment rusting in furrows, through camps of scraggly goats. Now we’d arrived at the “cute farm cottage” that I’d booked on Airbnb.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.