Today was a very relaxed day. Did laundry in the craziest but cleanest laundromat I've ever seen... there was an old raving South African dude (the owner's dad) who came in like a hurricane and flustered everyone... the place was spic and span, though, so who's complaining?
Helene was feeling sick from the bobotie that she ate last night... although the place where she had it, Mama Africa, was awesome: great ambiance (tourists mixing with locals mixing with visiting hipsters) and the live band was incredible. One of their songs was the equivalent to a similar band's entire set in Canada... We also both agreed that the woman standing in front of us hanging out with her friend and fiancee was the most sublimely beautiful African woman we had ever seen. And there was soccer on the telly! And beer! Man, GREAT place! Endorsement!
This afternoon, we walked around the Bo Taap neighbourhood and had a great coffee at a cute place called Rhubarb Room before walking down to the market area and buying almost all the rest of our plane tickets at the Flight Centre (Cochin-Calcutta and Amsterdam-Barcelona still pending). So now we have dates for our trip to Maputo in Mozambique, Dar and Zanzibar (not that one Nestor...) and to India via Qatar airlines on 11 Dec.
The internet is down at the hostal so I did some work on the captions and acknowledgements for the Barcelona book and then came here to a local internet cafe to send the file back to Toronto.
The minibus comes by at 5am to take us to the airport for our 8am flight to Windhoek, where Philippe will pick us up with the 4x4... Then it's out to the bush. I think that we'll be in a town of some sort at the week-end, so that will probably be the next update... because I'm guessing there is not much in the way of internet coverage in the Namib Desert...
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