Art & Soul
It’s late afternoon when I arrive at the Klein Karoo village of McGregor, but I’m in good time for the opening night of its annual three-day festival called Celebrating the Arts. In fact, there’s enough time for a stop at Millstone Pottery, the 1886 farmhouse now the home of potter Paul de Jongh and his family. In the high-roofed barn, once a wagon-making enterprise but now Paul’s pottery studio, people are taking up the De Jongh offer of ‘buy a bowl and get free food’, and are filling their wares with chilli con carne from the stove, and settling outside as a musician starts playing. It’s the perfect start to my three days here.
Next morning the bells from the nearby church wake me, and I join my newfound friends from the guest house for a stroll down the road to the local Saturday pop-up market in
