Windhoek Nightlife

While making a fire to braai some meat at The Cardboard Box we met some UK girls who had been in Namibia for 2 days. Michelle is a vegetarian so we debated about what she would be able to eat that was not meat in Namibia. Andre then suggested that he cook her a sweet potato we had brought along.

Happy hour came round at 7pm and surprise, surprise Team America arrived. They were living in Windhoek and popped in for the N$5 a beer special. I had a good chat to Erin.

After dinner we decided to go out with Michelle, Amy and a German girl who was staying at one of the other backpackers. She has been living in Dublin for 7 years so her German English had a bit odd Irish twist to it.

The plan was to go to club London. While waiting for a taxi some black guy tried to snatch Michelles’ handbag, fortunately she was holding it quite tightly so he did not get away with it. Andre then chased him away.

Taxis (typically something like a Mazda Midge or Citi Golf) in Windhoek are fun; they charge you a flat rate per person of N$13 to take you around town. We were five people so Andre manged to talk him down to N$10 each. Unfortunately our Taxi driver did not know where club London was so after a bit of driving around and asking for directions he eventually found it. Andre then manged to talk the door staff down to N$15 from the N$30 cover charge (they were having a foam party).

I could just as well have been in a club in Cape Town. Myself and the German girl had a good laugh when a rather stocky guy passed us with swimming wings.

We had arranged with the Taxi driver to pick us up at 2am again, but took his number as well. So at 2am there was no sign of him, a phonecall later and he would be there in 10min. After 20min he was still not there so Andre convinced a passing police van to give us all a lift home. It was a good laugh sitting in the back of the van getting a lift home. Andre donated them N$20 for the lift (on his insistance) and we all got home safely.

This was definatly a night to be remembered!