We live in a world in which accommodation venues would promote free WiFi as a selling point rather than the beautiful polished copper fourposter in the bedroom, or the mid-century Formica table in the kitchen. And that’s probably why you chuckle over the unpretentious message on Willemsrivier’s home page: “Willemsrivier is a working sheep farm, offering rustic, basic, unsophisticated, primitive farm-style historical and nostalgic nature-loving self-catering accommodation (not serviced, no aircon, no TV, no WiFi)”.
In the airy living room of their farmhouse, which does have WiFi – it is, after all, where they live and work – Arend and Erika Kotzé laugh about it too. “I changed the wording the other day to make things crystal clear,” Erika says. “I had to… You won’t believe how many people – especially people with children – simply
