Family at Clarens

View from our cottage in Clarens, 1972

Family weekends in Clarens were part of growing during the late 60's to mid 70's. It was no more than a hamlet, undiscovered, certainly nothing like the trendy Clarens of today.

We would walk and swim at the Kloof, climb the mountain behind town and my favourite past time was working on saturday mornings in the sandstone library on the town square.

I remember Mom having Clive's 13th birthday in Clarens and we must have had 13 boys in the cottage! We could not tire them out, they called me Queen Rat and Inel was Ratfink. She reminded me in an sms that her love was the apricot trees.

Eventually the folks sold off the plots of land and then the house and this era faded away.