Saturday evening in Vienna Airport, and this time it is off to Frankfurt, Johannesburg and Walvis Bay in Namibia followed by the drive to Swakopmund. I was here 2 years ago for a technical meeting but this time it is a training course that I am helping to run as well as visits to the country's two operating uranium mines.
The flights were with Austrian (A319) and Lufhansa (B747-400) and South African Express (B737-200) all OK and pretty well on time. I Johannesburg I met up with my former colleague Sharon Paulka from Adelaide who will be working with me on the training course.
Our hotel, the venue for the course, is a smart new (still building) Hotel and Spa right on the Atlantic ocean beach about 4 miles north of Swakopmund city. This is the view from the conference room balcony and note the lack of roof on the north wing!
The surf crashes relentlessly onto the beach 24 hours of the day and the weather is surprisingly cool, to say nothing of the salt spray that covers everything continually. The view from my room to the south with the Atlantic rolling in and the grass for de-sanding your feet.The flights were with Austrian (A319) and Lufhansa (B747-400) and South African Express (B737-200) all OK and pretty well on time. I Johannesburg I met up with my former colleague Sharon Paulka from Adelaide who will be working with me on the training course.
Our hotel, the venue for the course, is a smart new (still building) Hotel and Spa right on the Atlantic ocean beach about 4 miles north of Swakopmund city. This is the view from the conference room balcony and note the lack of roof on the north wing!
The sea is very cold due to the Benguela Current which runs up from the south, swimming is not recommended!Sadly a strike by Kenya Airways has left a number of participants stranded all over the place but gradually most of them made it through to Namibia.
Wednesday we will be visiting the two operating uranium mines.
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