Well, it has been quite some time since I was last here. So long in fact, that I am not sure of where to begin or what to write. But seeings as I am so bored and have nothing better to do, I may as well give it a shot.
I am now in Namibia, threw the British passport to the wind and decided to do something crazy - which may very well backfire on me badly lol, but hey, if you don't try you will never know, so here I am trying it out, and it's not easy, but definitely worth the shot.
I flew in on November 20th, 2008. A date to remember really. I have been here ever since, fighting for visa's and passport stamps, as that has been much more difficult to arrange that I expected, but hopefully soon now. Then when I can work and get my life together I think it will be a very different story. At the moment boredom is a major problem!!
It has been an interesting six months, although I am now quite lazy and accustomed to doing my own thing, so it might be hard to get back into working again. Hopefully once I have my visa then I will be able to start my own business and do something worthwhile that will keep me busy and that I can have some fun with as well. Ideally it would be events, parties, weddings etc, so hold thumbs that life doesn't take another random turn!
Christmas here was not nice, but New Year was great. Easter has just gone, and we had friends from Windhoek stay which was a lot of fun. Spent a lot of time on the beach, and got the backache, neckache, headache, and armache from hell after a day on the motorbike. I don't think I will ever get used to that! So not my thing - they all laughed at me when I said I normally balance there wondering just how many bones will break when I fall off the back and land on the tar ... But it is true! It's scary, and I like my bones in one piece!
We spent most of the weekend eating, I have to admit. Braai after braai, prawns and kingklip at the Walvis Bay Yacht Club, snoek on a fire on the beach, Napolitana ... I have come to the conclusion that my life revolves around food. Speaking of which, I am starving ...
Hope and Ian spent two weeks with us, and it was fantastic. It was great having them, we had an absolute ball, and I hope they did too. We went to the lodge, so got to see a huge amount of the country and saw some fantastic scenery. Sadly, it rained rather a lot, so it wasn't a whole lot different from England- wet and green - but it was still fab. The got to see thunderstorms, unbelievable heat, east wind, the Swakop river coming down, the Zambezi in flood, so all in all, a lot of interesting things.
The Pajero of course spent most of its time breaking down and being unreliable, so is still in the garage after the head blew on the way back from Katima, and when it comes out I will be throwing a match in the tank ... This leads to the story of having to load the Toyota to the brim, piling in, and driving 600 km's in a car that didn't have brakes, handbrake, speedometer, windscreen wipers, spare tyres - oh wait, then we had a blow out - and of course the battery didn't work so we had to push start it countless times (and thanks to Pio, push start it with the handbrake on ... Luckily it didn't work :-D properly but it did slow us down ) but thanks to Hope we had a laugh a minute so it wasn't that bad. All good fun, and definitely memorable.
Other than that, life is ticking by. It is only 8 months to Christmas, time flies!!! We are off to Botswana for the weekend, so that should be fun, and the weekend after we have Vicky and Tiaan to stay!! Yay!!
I am now in Namibia, threw the British passport to the wind and decided to do something crazy - which may very well backfire on me badly lol, but hey, if you don't try you will never know, so here I am trying it out, and it's not easy, but definitely worth the shot.
I flew in on November 20th, 2008. A date to remember really. I have been here ever since, fighting for visa's and passport stamps, as that has been much more difficult to arrange that I expected, but hopefully soon now. Then when I can work and get my life together I think it will be a very different story. At the moment boredom is a major problem!!
It has been an interesting six months, although I am now quite lazy and accustomed to doing my own thing, so it might be hard to get back into working again. Hopefully once I have my visa then I will be able to start my own business and do something worthwhile that will keep me busy and that I can have some fun with as well. Ideally it would be events, parties, weddings etc, so hold thumbs that life doesn't take another random turn!
Christmas here was not nice, but New Year was great. Easter has just gone, and we had friends from Windhoek stay which was a lot of fun. Spent a lot of time on the beach, and got the backache, neckache, headache, and armache from hell after a day on the motorbike. I don't think I will ever get used to that! So not my thing - they all laughed at me when I said I normally balance there wondering just how many bones will break when I fall off the back and land on the tar ... But it is true! It's scary, and I like my bones in one piece!
We spent most of the weekend eating, I have to admit. Braai after braai, prawns and kingklip at the Walvis Bay Yacht Club, snoek on a fire on the beach, Napolitana ... I have come to the conclusion that my life revolves around food. Speaking of which, I am starving ...
Hope and Ian spent two weeks with us, and it was fantastic. It was great having them, we had an absolute ball, and I hope they did too. We went to the lodge, so got to see a huge amount of the country and saw some fantastic scenery. Sadly, it rained rather a lot, so it wasn't a whole lot different from England- wet and green - but it was still fab. The got to see thunderstorms, unbelievable heat, east wind, the Swakop river coming down, the Zambezi in flood, so all in all, a lot of interesting things.
The Pajero of course spent most of its time breaking down and being unreliable, so is still in the garage after the head blew on the way back from Katima, and when it comes out I will be throwing a match in the tank ... This leads to the story of having to load the Toyota to the brim, piling in, and driving 600 km's in a car that didn't have brakes, handbrake, speedometer, windscreen wipers, spare tyres - oh wait, then we had a blow out - and of course the battery didn't work so we had to push start it countless times (and thanks to Pio, push start it with the handbrake on ... Luckily it didn't work :-D properly but it did slow us down ) but thanks to Hope we had a laugh a minute so it wasn't that bad. All good fun, and definitely memorable.
Other than that, life is ticking by. It is only 8 months to Christmas, time flies!!! We are off to Botswana for the weekend, so that should be fun, and the weekend after we have Vicky and Tiaan to stay!! Yay!!
