Hubers go Africa

Where did they put me? Is it Africa or the Alps? It’s icy in the morning – 7 degrees Celsius. I count my blessings for the hot shower. What everyone is happy about (except the Germans who escaped from their rainy homeland): For the first time in 10-12 years, the „Little Rainy Season“, which is actually typical for…

Two days lie behind us, which bring us closer to the other side of Namibia. Three examples: 1. After a grandiose car guy, who replaced the broken inverter by pulling new cables from one of the two batteries to the dashboard, we ended up with amateurs. As if we have the only car in Windhoek that…

The calling became too loud. Since September 30th we are back in Namibia. And Windhoek welcomes us with a huge innovation: Collection of biometric data upon arrival. Ten People before us. Took half an hour. Why don’t you take a speed sketch Artist? More important: Our Toyo is ready to go. But still some work the…

… I’m ready to go, I’m standing here outside the door …. (same song as at the beginning of this blog). A long tour has come to its end. Two months and nearly 8,000 km through four countries in Southern Africa.          Now I’m sitting here at the Airport thinking about the many animals and few…

Coming to the end means first of all caring for Toyo: Cleaning the car from the inside (kilos of sand in every hollow space), the outside (smells like a hybrid of elephant and warthog), treating him to an under carriage wash (salt is gone now) and arranged with the Toyota garage a date to repair…

I have to ask Axel & Team (Merck’s brand champions) to speak to the Impalas (CIO) about their „vibrant M“ and to the South-African winemaker. Ob das Merck’sche Branding-Team die Impalas davon überzeugen kann, dass ihr „M“ auf der Hinterseite nicht „vibrant“ genug ist?  Der Sauvignon wäre dann sicher das kleinere Problem.  

Erongo Mountains are the left-over of a huge, ancient volcano, which erupted about 130 million years ago. Huge granite boulders (formerly lava) are scattered around the landscape as if placed there by mighty powers. Surreal, peculiar and fascinating. We stayed there because of the very different landscape to sand and water (we had enough of…

We continued our journey back to Windhoek under a Bavaria-like white and blue sky. Next stop was Roy’s Camp (creative decoration and an awesome WLAN). Africa is not only adventurous, sometimes it’s just fun – exactly what I need  🙂 Here I met Sigrid, not only an expert in bilingual blogging (www.lowlandcruisers.com) but even more relaxed…