Accidental Tourist
Mpumalanga is full of accident-prone grockles, er, tourists
When visiting the province, do as the locals do, lest you want to fall over a waterfall, writes Andrew Unsworth
12 January 2020 - 00:00
Many years ago, on my first visit abroad, I went to Cornwall in the West Country of England. I soon learned that the local, slightly derogatory word for a tourist was a "grockle". Because I was one, apparently, a stranger slightly ignorant of local ways and gawping at everything...
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