![]() ![]() It’s fancier, more regal, and more English than The Queens. The richer visitors from Johannesburg go to The Balmoral, named after you-know-who’s castle. I sleep in a room with my parents, and they request on a form each night whether they want tea or coffee in bed with the biscuits delivered on a tray to their room each morning at 6 or 7 a.m., a supposed adult luxury whose nature now eludes me: Why, on your holiday, would you want to have tea or coffee served to you in bed long before breakfast and then go back to sleep?Įveryone (white and Jewish) from the southern part of Africa comes south to summer here for a few weeks. Run by Jews for Jews, it nevertheless has English customs, and so every meal from breakfast to dinner involves baked haddock, and every room has a chamber pot, since the shared bathroom is at the end of the corridor or even half way up another flight of stairs. Every summer we spend two weeks at The Queens Hotel, a shabby dark three-storey establishment owned by my father’s cousins Rivka and Yehuda.
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