Day 4: Williston and Surrounds
Head out of Williston town after breakfast and stop off at the remains of an Anglo-Boer War lookout post and a British camp en route to Langbaken Farm for a cheese tasting.
It was Camembert cheese that brought Peter and Francy Schoeman together, and led them both to the Karoo.
Their romance was so agriculturally based it could have been set in a modern-day Thomas Hardy novel. In 2000, Francy was working in a farm near Greyton in the Western Cape, and had big dreams of making Camembert cheese – one of the more difficult cheeses to master.
Francy struggled with the Camembert until she met a cheesemaking mentor Joan Berning of Plettenberg Bay, who supplies cheese cultures. Soon Francy began selling her cheese at the Greyton farmers’s market and did very well. She added feta and cream cheese to her products. One of her signatures is the fine ash rind on the Camembert, fine as talcum. The monks used to do it to preserve cheeses stashed in caves. It lends a unique taste and alters the alkalinity of the rind.
After your cheese tasting, set off for Dagbreek Farm where you can view game such as springbok, eland, and even some exotic farm animals such as emu and lamas.
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