We left on Monday to go to the Cherry Festival at Ficksburg.
Ficksburg is on the border of the Kingdom of Lesotho and South Africa in the Eastern Free state.
We decided to take the long way there, what is more we decided to free camp and not book in to caravan parks.That is some thing we did often before,but we stop ed doing when the children were born. We left Rantfontein at 10h00 and we did not know where we would park for the night which was exciting.The road to Vereeniging was uneventful and some what boring but after we left Vanderbijlpark the scenery changed from urbane factory's to farm land.The city made way for rolling hills and corn fields, cattle doted the grasslands and we enjoyed every minute of the journey.The R57 to Heilbron is in good nick with hardly any potholes.We took the road thru the town of Heilbron because the road around the town where closed dew to maintenance.Unfortunately the roads in the town is full of potholes and the general upkeep of the town is non existent dew to a bankrupt municipality. Unfortunately greed and Corruption is killing these small towns thru out South Africa.
We found ourselves at the kwiant town of Clarens.
Clerens is one of that small towns that draws you in and although a tourist trap, indeed makes you feel at home.We decided to stay over for the night and made camp on the other side of the road in front of the police station.
