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Milner House - Accommodation in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
Milner House - Accommodation in
Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa In
the world’s diamond capital you have to dig for gems. Luckily, GG
prospectors travel with spades and sieves and excavated this sparkler:
Milner House. On the side of town where mining magnates built their
Victorian mansions, the guesthouse sits in a quiet tree-lined street,
behind a wall draped with greenery. The double doors of this
white-walled, single-storey home open into a tiled living room where
you can use the kitchen, snooze on the sofas and tuck into breakfast.
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| Price: 3 |
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| 5 doubles 1 twin |
The
bedrooms are muted in tone, with good-quality linen, hand-made pine
furniture and aircon. My favourite had two supine chairs in the
light-filled pocket of a bay window. All are clean and comfortable and
three have their own stoeps, from which to admire the shady garden.
Palms sprout from the lawn, ivy tumbles from green tin roofs and a
tree-stump path leads round to a pool. Fires and Leonie, who live next
door, know a thing or two about hospitality (they own a couple of
hotels in town) and the staff are charming, happily setting you off on
your own treasure hunt.
Minutes
away are the excellent McGregor Museum, collections of contemporary
art and colonial Old Masters, the Big Hole - some no-nonsense naming
there! - and Rhodes’s Kimberley Club. Slightly further afield lie the
Kamsferdam flamingos and the Boer trenches at Magersfontein. Fascinating stuff. There is plenty to do in the
area too. Go to the Big Hole Museum. Consisting
of original and carefully reconstructed buildings this museum has
preserved a great deal of the city's past. The Eureka, the first
recorded diamond discovered in South Africa, can be viewed at the
museum. Have some fun sifting through diamond bearing gravel, looking
for your own diamond. Play skittles in the old bowling alley, or just
stroll through the old buildings which have been reconstructed here at
the museum.