Swakopmund, Namibia

On Wednesday I took a bus to Swakopmund. It is a small but pretty mostly German city, on the Atlantic coast of Namibia. The ride lasted about four hours. Afterwards strolling for some hours there around I practically knew the whole town.
I knew that on Thursday there would arrive a group of five brave Finnish hunters from the bushes, lead by my neighbour and friend Mr. Jaakko Lehto, a very experienced hunter himself. After their arrival, it started to rain gin tonics, their mood was very high after a good hunting success of 21 animals. I spent the next day with the group too, having a lunch trip to Walvis Bay, but with a little less drinks. On Saturday they had their flight back to Europe, and I was invited to travel with their car back to Windhoek. We there had a late lunch before they left to the airport, and I went back to my previous Hotel Steiner, where I had left most of my gears. As I had had almost all the time in Cape Town the same taxi, so did I have in Windhoek. Francois 32, of French origin was always ready to bring me to or pick me up from anywhere anytime. After I introduced him to the manager of the hotel as a very reliable partner to work, he gave me 50 % discount in every fare. The hotel was very happy, telling me that they all the time were in constant need of reliable taxis.
My friend again said he needs more business to buy two more taxis still this year to extend his fleet to four cars. His dream was to have in few years time 20 cars, many of all terrain vehicles.
I still spent two lazy days there, before having my last long flight on this journey from Windhoek to Frankfurt am Main, to where I landed yesterday morning. I then took a ICE train to Lüneburg via Hannover. Excatly at 1pm I met my very longtime friend Heinz-Jürgen (since 1962) and was brought to his home, where his wife Karin, his daughter Kristina and grandchildren Annika 7 and Tom 2.5 were waiting for me.
And we had a very pleasant evening with good food and drinks. Today Karin managed to create the most wonderful turkey with red cabbage, potatoes and delicious sauce.
I do not remember, if I ever had a better bird to eat.
Tomorrow Heinz-Jürgen will drive me to Lübeck to meet another old friends Antje and Georges. I know Antje since we both were 17!
By the way, the Trophy, which I saw in Kuala Lumpur under finishing process, was brought to Finland by Kimi Raikkonen last Sunday, as I did then wish.