Generation Y has graduated from ice-creams to shooters. Otherwise he would be confined to barracks, stone sober, waiting for a call to cart the kids from one pissup to the next. Fortunately there is now a financial services company that will finance it over three years. So the day starts with a 50 kilometer opvok just to get out of the house and away from the Honey-do list.ĭad cannot exactly afford a trendy new super push-bike. He has to get fit for the Argus Bike race in March. The ‘Honey-do’ list after a year of ware and tare, rot and rust on a coastal home is formidable.Īnd don’t think Dad can join the local morons at the pub. ![]() Today, with the family settled Dad has to fulfill the definition of a ‘coastal property owner’ – he who spends his holiday time fighting in a hardware store. Or other family members plus enough holiday Klingons to impress Commander Spock.įifty years ago few families owned their coastal property. Then he’s off to the airport to collect Mom and daughter. So today Dad sets off with son in the advance party in the 4X4. So it all goes on the credit card to pay off next year. Few employers stick to this practice today. The RSA summer holidays used to be financed with the 13th cheque that was a part of general employment practice. Today if you get it wrong these can easily double the fuel bill. You may have had an encounter with ‘Gatsometer Gert.’ But there were no cameras on every bend or toll roads every half-hour. Half the distance of today’s preferred destinations in the Cape. Some say the real season only lasts from Boxing Day to New Year.įifty years ago KZN was RSA’s premier destination. ![]() So the Christmas expedition is much shorter. At least half of today’s annual leave has to be saved for the mid-year overseas trip. After a month everyone was saturated and looking forward to going back home.įor starters the month-long holiday is dead. It really was a holiday tradition of ‘dronk word, kak praat en rondvok.’ Meanwhile the kids went to the beach. He left the kids to unpack the car and headed off to join the local drunks and weirdos at the pub. The trip to the coast was hell in summer, but when Dad got there it was worth it. Years ago Dad loaded up the family station wagon and set forth on a month long holiday at the coast. But we don’t stop to use these old lines to measure the extent of change in holiday habits. We could spend a wonderful evening giving Jeremy Taylor’s words a makeover. Fifty years ago Jeremy Taylor sang…Īg, pleeez Daddy won’t you take us off to Durban There’s nothing new about the nag factor and annual Christmas holidays. Matthew explains why in yet another wonderful contribution. Judging by the condition of those fun spots of yore (especially down the South Coast), the trek is becoming less popular every year. A trip to the KZN coast and a roasting on the beach was obligatory for the middle class in those days before anyone seemed to know about skin cancer. ![]() This piece brought back a holiday at Zinkwazi Beach where I fell asleep in the noonday sun and spent the rest of the trip in the sauna we called a tent, on my stomach waiting for blisters to pop. And a way of teaching us about his speciality – tax – by working lessons through seemingly unrelated stories. Matthew Lester: Goodbye Great SA Summer Holiday – and coastal fun spots
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