Alternative Space B & B Swakopmund
167 Anton Lubowski Street Swakopmund, Namibia
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Sand, Sand, Everywhere!
We arrived in Swakopmund in the afternoon and checked in to the Alternate Space B&B. This was a very unique, but nice place. The owner Frenus was very interesting and also a local architect who was designing the local Namibian Naval Base. We learned early on that Frenus' children played inline hockey and that hockey was very popular in this …
Swanky Pants
Friday 22nd January 1999
Planned early start didn’t happen!!
Left about 9 to head out of park and down to the coast.
Drive through drier & drier country – then last 2 hours were across the Namib Desert.
Arrive in Swakopmund (Swanky Pants) and wander around streets looking for accom. & a …
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