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It’s all happening again at the festival hub of the Knysna Oyster Festival. Picture:

GARDEN ROUTE | Trade the winter blues for loads of family fun in Knysna’s playground

It’s that time of the year again on the Garden Route when the annual Knysna Oyster Festival takes place, injecting millions of rands into the local economy while creating a festive atmosphere that helps banish the winter blues.

There are nooks and crannies filled with treasures at Thrift Fair Emporium. Picture:

GARDEN ROUTE | Time for retail therapy after onslaught of extreme weather

Thrift and charity shops provide quirky options on the Garden Route

Kay & Monty Vineyard is the perfect place to host the Plett Wine & Bubbly fest.

GARDEN ROUTE | If it’s Plettenberg Bay in May, a wine and bubbly festival will make your day

Annual celebration of wine-of-origin region that draws thousands from around the country

Graeme Nathan comes round the corner to the delight of spectators in a 2020 Volkswagen Polo 2-litre in the  King of the Hill 2023

GARDEN ROUTE | Exotic cars, speed and sound as racers take to the hill

If you need to gauge just how fast this year is flying, then Easter is a marker on the calendar, but so too is the Simola Hillclimb, SA’s premier annual motorsport event that takes place in Knysna this time of the year.

The Zip Zap Circus is on stage in the Klein Karoo for the first time with MOYA. Picture: Joan Ward.

GARDEN ROUTE | Veteran, up and coming, and brand new Garden Route Festivals

It’s important to have things to look forward to, occasions or getaways, or, in this part of the world, festivals, that break the mundane.

The picturesque walk way along the estuary past Costa Sarda towards George Rex Drive is quite simply no longer safe

GARDEN ROUTE | Mugged twice and losing faith in Knysna

I have pondered the subject of this week’s column and decided that if it saves just one person from a terrible experience, like the one I had, then it’s worth it.

An aerial view shows just how empty the Akkerkloof Dam looked this week

GARDEN ROUTE | Knysna people do your bit so that the taps don’t run dry

Knysna folks, the water shortage in the town is critical and if we all don’t do our bit to stay within our level 4 restrictions, there is a good chance that the nightmare of empty taps will become a reality in the next week or so.