Gaby's Doggy Parlour, what else?

The whole of Swakopmund felt like a movie-set. Every building and road felt so empty and there was such a surreal touch to the city. Not that we felt uneasy walking around, the city was actually quite quaint, but way too unexciting.

Towards A Distant Horizon

April 4th 2007
High were my expectations of the Namibian capital. A castle Neuschwanstein perched on the slopes between the Eros and Auas mountain chains, with a quaint cobblestoned town centre of thatched roof houses, was the least I expected. Of course this wasn’t the case as we arrived at six o’ clock to a nondescript bus-station, next to a soulless mall and the sky was as grey as in a Philip K. Dick in ... read more

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South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II, when it annexed the territory. In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla gr... ... read more

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