Saturday, 24 May 2025 This morning we attempted a city of Windhoek tour but found our way blocked by a running event. Wian retraced his route and found a different way to drive towards the west of the city … which was blocked by a Youth Organisation protest march. After the marchers had passed by […]
Friday, 23 May 2025 With our pick-up scheduled for 7.00am we headed down to the restaurant at 6.00am believing that it opened at 6.00am. That would be wrong – the doors were closed because it does not open until 6.30am! We headed back to our room to fill in 15 minutes before returning to the
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Thursday, 22 May 2025 After the technical dramas of yesterday I am feeling more confident about continuing with the blogging. I have abandoned Word and the Cloud and I have returned to writing my travel diary in Pages which is what I used to use when I first started typing my travel diary rather than
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 It was an early start for Bernie this morning taking the hire car back to the Hertz depot before breakfast. Our car hire agreement entitled us to 200 kilometres which ordinarily would have been enough to travel to Cape Point and back but with all the road closures we encountered yesterday
Tuesday, 20 May 2025 Today dawned cold and wet, VERY WET which resulted in me experiencing some packer’s regret. We nearly always pack our waterproof pants, and I definitely thought about packing them for this trip BUT with our 15-kilogram luggage limit they didn’t make the cut. Really could have used them today! I also
Monday, 19 May 2025 At midnight (local time) we made our way back downstairs to Gate A2. Security screening was more troublesome with all our electronics having to be taken out of our carry-on bags, belts off, watches off, outerwear off before we could proceed through the body scanner. Despite the hassle we all made
Sunday, 18 May 2025 With a mid-afternoon flight we were able to fit in a decent 50-minute walk this morning in lovely sunshine. It was still cold, only about 7°C, but the sun was shining which made for a more pleasant walk than yesterday when it was cool and wet most of the day. Kerry
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