Windhoek

Arriving at the International Airport in Windhoek was a first taste of the kind of "isolation" we were going to experience in Namibia. A right turn taken after the parking lot and... desert! And a starry sky like I have rarely seen before.

Our hotel was an old castle conversion. Comfortable and exotic and I am still asking myself who the hell would build a castle in the 1900s - the time when the Germans landed in that part of the world. A castle in the 20th century? Oh yes, this is the Namibian answer to the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, built in the mid/late 19th century by the megalomaniac Ludwig II, who forgot he did not live in the middle Age any longer. Those Germans... tsc tsc tsc

Well.. at least that castle served as an inspiration to the Cinderela castle of Florida's Disney World. So.. Hurray!! Thanks Ludwig! As Obama would say: "you were the man!"



Jokes apart, the Heinitzburg was a great place and a lovely start to our trip.



Windhoek per se was not mind blogging exciting. It was a small German town, clean and quiet, organised and sterile. As our President Lula so kindly said on his visit to Namibia a few years ago: "it is so clean, it doesn't seem we are in Africa at all". Touche'!! With one little sentence our beloved President manage to embarrass 180mi people in one go. Thank you, Lula!! As Obama said: "You are the man!"

But forgetting about this horrendous faux pas of our Luis Inacio Lula Molusco da Silva and his total lack of diplomacy, he was kind of right about this town. So, to close on Windhoek: I am too polite to say it was a tad boring the place... and as I am going through a "ladylike" phase, I'd say it that 2 nights there were 'quite sufficient'.

Next stop: Namib Naufkluft Park and that's what we went to Namibia for.