Waggstravels 2010: May 10 to 14: Windhoek, Namiibia

Well, as Jes and Grethe headed off to their flight home to Copenhagen I was t the other end of Vienna airport on a flight to Frankfurt and thence to Windhoek, capital of Namibia. My mission was to do some briefings for senior officials on uranium mining and associated activities.
Sadly when I arrived at Frankfurt I was told that Air Namibia's Airbus 340 was broken and I was booked into the airport Sheraton Hotel and the flight would take off at 0830. So I was going to be 12 hours late for the meetings! Still that is life.
Air Namibia was OK but not a great airline I have to say, even in business class. Still we arrived Ok and I was met by people from the Ministry ans taken to my Guest house - the Pension Alexander. Clean and well run but basically justa B&B. Nice helpful people and a good breakfast - all that you need really.

After the meeting was over we had a day off to wait for the flight home. It was a public holiday and all the shops and offices were shut so we went out to see the Heroes Acre - a giant memorial to those who ahve fought in the various indepence wars in Namibia as the local people fought for freedom from first the Germans in the early part of the 20th century and then the South Africans more recently. The site was built and paid for by the Government of North Korea.
After lunch on site we headed off to see one of te giant meat market barbecue places wher the meat is cut, cooked and sold on site and there is also a wood market too for the firewood to do the cooking.