Archive for October, 2008

Categories: Buchter News, Namibia

Update from the -now- sunny Lüderitz

Namibia is advertised as “Namibia, land of sunshine, spaces and smiles”. Spaces & Smiles were already here - although the spaces are more obvious than the smiles I must say. But now with the summer setting in, I finally realize the sunshine bit.
Although It has not rained since we have got here. It has been [...]

Categories: Namibia

Kolmanskop

Today we had the privilege to visit a photo studio based in Kolmanskop. Next to the (tourist) restaurant this is the only inhabitant left in Kolmanskop which is now a ghost town. It goes without saying that Kolmanskop is a photographers dream - after all the studio isn’t based their because of the lovely neighbours.
So [...]

Categories: Blog, Namibia

Skaam Haai

This week I picked up my fishing license. And because the last two days have been virtually wind still & sunny days, it was time for fishing.
Accompanied by my downstairs neighbour, his two fishing rods and a six pack of beer we headed out to the yeti, just behind our house. And I’m happy to [...]

Categories: Holiday, Namibia

A week at Kubul

It started of Friday the 3rd of October. After helping out at Brightstart, moving the lower-elementary to the upper-elementary class and vice versa, we left at 1 p.m. towards the Kubul farm in Aus.
The drive took us about an hour and a half. An hour and a half. Not so long you might think… well [...]

Categories: Holiday, Namibia

Guess who’s back

I’m back from an exhausting but unbelievably fun week of veld school. I’ve been camping, hunting, abseiling and hiking. So much that I haven’t found the time yet to put it all in one story, so I’ll start off with the general idea of veld school.
The veld school I went to was a farm owned [...]

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