From Windhoek to Perth
Blog URL http://theperthlog.blogspot.com/
Located Perth, Western Australia Australia
Tags Perth, Western Australia, family, travel, Australia, Namibia, emigrate, immigration
I recently emigrated to Perth from Windhoek, Namibia. This blog describes my new life in Western Australia.
Latest Blog Posts
- Seabird on Nov 18, 2009
A few photos taken around a little coastal town called Seabird: In 1656, 4 years after the first Dutch settlers landed in the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa, the Dutch East India company shipwrecked a ship called the Vergul...
- Memorial Day on Nov 11, 2009
When this happened last year, I still had too many other weird and wonderful things to write about, and I didn’t mention it on my blog. But this year it happened again, and I had to write something about it. Today was Memorial Day in Austral...
- Fakebook on Oct 28, 2009
I had a very nice chat with one of my hundreds of friends on Facebook yesterday. She initiated the chat, and something was different, but I couldn’t figure out what nagged at me until much later. After a few sentences she started telling me...
- Weird science on Oct 19, 2009
Sometimes I really wonder how science (or scientists, rather?) actually achieved anything during the last two centuries. How did we end up in a world where technology dictates and regulates everything, considering that some of the world’s top...
- So much for following the rules on Oct 8, 2009
I previously mentioned how I had to struggle to convert my Namibian drivers licence. Now I see there’s a much easier way. Just tell the magistrate that you’re from Africa, and have no idea how to catch a bus, and whalla – you’ll get issued...
- Nature calling? on Oct 3, 2009
I am one of those weird people who just absolutely hate telephones. I hate ringing up people, and I hate answering a phone. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a landline or a mobile – I don’t wanna talk. My wife says talking to...
- “I only know revolution, …” on Sep 27, 2009
I promised not to use this blog to highlight the baboonistic regime in Southern Africa, but I just can’t keep my big mouth shut. My readers from southern Africa will know what this is about, but to help those other readers, who are mainly Australi...
