Around the World in Many Days, I: South West Africa
Apparently, Windhoek is a city where one sleeps by day and plays cards by night. Or perhaps it is a city where another watches over the sleeping by day and plays cards with the sleepless by night.
Naturally, such jet-lagged antics are hardly conducive to exploring a new city, and the foreign eye, when at last abroad, is understandably more apt to notice the alien than the appealing. As when one wanders along streets named Beethoven or Liszt or Grieg, or Pasteur or Jenner or Nightingale, where every house is solidly walled and every wall surmounted by an electric fence.
Accommodations:
- Windhoek Gardens Guest House (2 nights; very nice)
- Chameleon Backpackers (2 nights; noisy till late at night)
Photo captions: (a) Christuskirche; (b) a cash register at the supermarket
R S
14 chapters
16 Apr 2020
[Namibia] Chapter II: In which N is unconvinced that she has at last found her ideal diurnal cycle
August 13, 2017
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Windhoek, Namibia, 13-17 August 2017
Apparently, Windhoek is a city where one sleeps by day and plays cards by night. Or perhaps it is a city where another watches over the sleeping by day and plays cards with the sleepless by night.
Naturally, such jet-lagged antics are hardly conducive to exploring a new city, and the foreign eye, when at last abroad, is understandably more apt to notice the alien than the appealing. As when one wanders along streets named Beethoven or Liszt or Grieg, or Pasteur or Jenner or Nightingale, where every house is solidly walled and every wall surmounted by an electric fence.
Accommodations:
- Windhoek Gardens Guest House (2 nights; very nice)
- Chameleon Backpackers (2 nights; noisy till late at night)
Photo captions: (a) Christuskirche; (b) a cash register at the supermarket
1.
[Namibia] Chapter I: In which N and R kiss each other, the one as woman, the other as man
2.
[Namibia] Chapter II: In which N is unconvinced that she has at last found her ideal diurnal cycle
3.
[Namibia] Chapter III: In which a sandstorm takes place which seems likely to cost no one dear
4.
[Namibia] Chapter IV: In which Walvis Bay astounds us, its pilgrims
5.
[Namibia] Chapter V: In which a new species of roads, unknown to the calm men, appears in Damaraland
6.
[Namibia] Chapter VI: In which we, the travellers, betray a very natural impatience
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[Namibia] Chapter VII: Which once more demonstrates the usefulness of water as an aid to eyesight
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[Namibia] Chapter VIII: In which N drives rather faster, perhaps, than before
9.
[Namibia] Chapter IX: In which the Kavango and the Mahango prove propitious to our designs
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[Namibia] Chapter X: In which we are only too glad to get off with the loss of our air conditioning
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[Namibia] Chapter XI: In which N secures a curious means of lodging at a fabulous price
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[Botswana] Chapter XII: In which we venture across the Botswana border, and what ensued
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[Zimbabwe, Zambia] Chapter XIII: In which N receives a new proof that fortune favours the brave
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Summary of Part I and Onwards to Part II
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