Woke up last night to go to the bathroom - and what did I see directly across from me as I sat on the toilet?? A spider on the wall, about the size of my palm.
Hmmmm, what should I do?
Luckily, I had taken the kettle from the kitchen to have tea every night in my room, so I got my flip flop ready and boiled up some water.
He instantly fell wrinkled to the floor when the water hit him... and then I swept him out the door with my flip flop.
I discovered this handy trick in Luanda. There was a cockroach on the counter beside my teacup, so I dribbled some boiling water on him from the kettle and watched him die - the quickest I have ever done away with a roach!
17.8.07
Last meal in Windhoek
OR... stuck in Windhoek for another meal.
Windhoek is a place where you land and take-off from, not somewhere you stay (haven't I said that before about another city?!?!)
But here I am... have been... for 6 straight nights... due to Angolan inflexibility, bureaucratic stupidity or just the Angolan way. T.I.A. as we would say -- This Is Angola. Getting a simple transit visa took longer than I had hoped, leaving no time to do anything other than stay on in Windhoek.... another example of T.I.A... did I tell you the story about trying to close a bank acct with a balance of $1.15 in Luanada? It took 2 weeks.
And thankfully The Puccini House always had a room for me... so I stayed on in my Sunset Room and my dinner tonight is costing more than one night in that little yellow room.
A former colleague in Luanda raved about a sushi restaurant in Windhoek with the most beautiful woman in the world as a waitress - so I had to check her out. I went for sushi at NICE, the super ultra cool and trendy restaurant. No beautiful waitress, but a very handsome sushi-chef.
Tonight I am trying the other side of NICE - Namibian Institute of Culinary Education. I am having the set menu:
Smoked salmon trout on a potato rosti and salad bouquet
Kudu loin in a spring roll pastry with dried apricots on couscous with seasonal vegetables
Chocolate brownies with kumquats and amarula souce
... and of course wine - a glass so filled that I worried I would have to crawl home.
Windhoek hasn´t been such a difficult place to pass some time - a gentle re-entry to what is to come.
Windhoek is a place where you land and take-off from, not somewhere you stay (haven't I said that before about another city?!?!)
But here I am... have been... for 6 straight nights... due to Angolan inflexibility, bureaucratic stupidity or just the Angolan way. T.I.A. as we would say -- This Is Angola. Getting a simple transit visa took longer than I had hoped, leaving no time to do anything other than stay on in Windhoek.... another example of T.I.A... did I tell you the story about trying to close a bank acct with a balance of $1.15 in Luanada? It took 2 weeks.
And thankfully The Puccini House always had a room for me... so I stayed on in my Sunset Room and my dinner tonight is costing more than one night in that little yellow room.
A former colleague in Luanda raved about a sushi restaurant in Windhoek with the most beautiful woman in the world as a waitress - so I had to check her out. I went for sushi at NICE, the super ultra cool and trendy restaurant. No beautiful waitress, but a very handsome sushi-chef.
Tonight I am trying the other side of NICE - Namibian Institute of Culinary Education. I am having the set menu:
Smoked salmon trout on a potato rosti and salad bouquet
Kudu loin in a spring roll pastry with dried apricots on couscous with seasonal vegetables
Chocolate brownies with kumquats and amarula souce
... and of course wine - a glass so filled that I worried I would have to crawl home.
Windhoek hasn´t been such a difficult place to pass some time - a gentle re-entry to what is to come.
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