Hantam Huis in Calvinia, Karoo – don’t drive past

By Roxanne Reid
Stand outside the grey-and-white limewashed building that is Hantam Huis in Calvinia, Karoo, and it’s as if you’ve dropped through a wormhole into the 1850s. Except for that plaque that declares it a National Monument. That wouldn’t have been there 160 years ago when it was first built. Don’t drive past; stop and explore like we did. A three-wheeler bicycle outside has a blackboard that lures us inside with its promise ofmoerkoffie, melktert, gemmerbier, pannekoek. What we...