What was to have been a week’s foray into the Karoo was truncated when, on a hike up a section of the Bloupunt trail in the Montagu mountains, I injured my knee. We always stay at the Montagu Country Hotel (winter specials), an art deco establishment inside and out, with 1940s furniture, paintings, objets d’art and a wonderful septuagenarian pianist, Kosie Hanekom, who plays during dinner hour every night except Fridays, which is his bridge night out. He told me this time that his bridge partner’s wife had left him for his best friend, and now they celebrate as a threesome.
Kosie models his playing on Charlie Kunz, an old favourite of my father’s, who was himself a pianist. I already had one of Kosie’s CDs, but he insisted I have his latest. “It’s more laid back,” he explained.
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