Vic’s Italians

I bumped into my friend and fellow safari guide, Vic – a tall, gaunt, phlegmatic, and bearded man, in a campsite pub in Rundu, a small town on the Kavango river in northern Namibia. I was near the start of a three-week safari through Namibia with four English folk. A carefully planned and exciting itinerary…

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The Baron

My wife, Salome, and I had a group of guests on safari in Namibia and we were going to spend the day exploring the Lunar Landscape just outside the town of Swakopmund. We set off into this magnificent, but potentially dangerous, stretch of land, on a road that wound through rocky hills which were mostly…

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