Thirteen Formative Years |
 HOLIDAYS – Hermanus: During our Cape Town holiday, we also visited the Brauer family at their holiday home in Hermanus. A few years later, we too started to holiday in Hermanus. As Bobby wrote in his Memoirs, “Three years running we made the journey of 975 miles from Johannesburg to Hermanus, a fishing village turned fashionable holiday resort some 70 miles east of Cape Town, and back. We rented a cottage for a month from the brother of Jim Cuthbert, a plastic surgeon with whom I worked and was very friendly. … Those Hermanus holidays were wonderful. There were two lovely beaches with good safe bathing, and a small mountain stream with water the colour of Coca-Cola with a pool in it large and deep enough to dive and swim in, good rock fishing and spinning for yellow-tails when there was a run on in the new harbour, good walks in magnificent scenery and countless drives in the vicinity.” This is a photograph that Bobby took in the early 1950s of the old harbour in Hermanus, and … |