Walking for a bushman's dinner

I went a bit later to the office than Anne today and picked up a yummy falafel sandwich on the way from a nearby coffee shop. It was significantly larger than what I expected for the 2.10€ I paid for it.

In the evening, the three of us decided to go on a walk towards a place that had been recommended to us by multiple people - Joe's Beerhouse. It was in another part of town and we figured the 35min walk would do us good after so much focus time at the office.

We spotted some cool murals along the way, and made good progress with our arrival timed just around sunset. Suddenly, with our destination in sight, we were stopped in our tracks. Apparently some of the earlier rains had created a "pop-up river", an intense stream of water that isn't usually there.

A lot of the approaching cars turned around once they saw the river they would need to cross, and essentially only people driving in 4x4 trucks or big semi trucks decided to go through, because there were easily 30cm of streaming water to wade through.

We ended up hitching a ride in the back of a pick-up truck, and apart from enjoying our time in this really cool place, Arlett and I also decided to share a so called bushman's sosatie - a grilled meat platter which contained crocodile, oryx, springbok, kudu, and zebra meat.

In my opinion, springbok and zebra were the tastiest 😋 We later called a taxi through the local Uber equivalent called LEFA and the car both came and left through the river which had already shrunk by a considerable size at that point. Though the car then did have a few issues that the driver blamed on the river crossing, such as the gas randomly being interrupted during the drive 😅Read more