This is typical Free State countryside with the road stretching in a straight line for kilometers at a time with very little traffic.
There has been a lot of rain in the Free State ( this part anyway) and the grass on either side of the road was long and green- such a contrast to the winter when the veld is just a sea of brown.
We found this old Synagogue in Senekal.It looks as if there was a sizable Jewish community in the area in the early part of the 20th Century and I wonder what happened to them as the years passed. This building looks as if it has been unused for years.Many buildings of historical significance are beginning to fall apart as communities battle to cope with more mundane costs such as housing and sanitation with very little money.
Senekal itself seems to be the centre of a farming district with huge silos and a couple of petrol stations and not much else.
The Bed and Breakfast we stayed in was over a hundred years old and very well maintained by its owners but the upkeep of such an old building must be astronomical given that the building was probably not that well built to start with.
This mountain outside Harrismith is more familiar territory for us- we pass it 4 or 5 times a year on the Main Johannesburg/Durban freeway. Wonderfully green at this time of the year, these mountains always exude a sense of secrecy- to me at any rate.
