A busy day of work in Swakopmund

There was a storm the previous night, and we had strategically positioned our camper on such a way that our luxe camper building was shielding us from most of the crazy wind. When we woke up, it was a lot calmer, and we decided to go for a quick morning dip into the ocean. Everyone else seemed asleep and we didn't want to carry our wet stuff for the whole day, so we decided to go skinny dipping.

The ocean was surprisingly warm compared to the same ocean's temperature in Cape Town, 1500km further down south. Though it was still far from truly being considered warm. Refreshed like this and ready for a busy day, we decided to skip our own provisions and immediately head back into Swakopmund to do some work from a popular coffee shop, and enjoy a proper breakfast from there as well.

The coffee shop was great (they even laid an extension cord to our table so we could charge our devices!), and the internet speeds were good enough for passable quality Zoom meetings. At some point I decided to head to the store of the other mobile provider, as the one we had a SIM from was out of signal range annoyingly often. I waited for 45min until it was my turn, only to then be told that I either need a residency certificate or a statement issued by a local police department stating that we were camping and allowed to receive a SIM card. This of course seemed completely absurd to me, and I wouldn't even know how to ask for such a statement from the police. The closest station was at the opposite end of the city anyways.

I shared my findings with Anne and we decided to make it work with the SIM we already had, and around lunchtime we got kicked out of the coffee shop we were in because they were closing at 14:00. We packed up our work setups and moved on to the next coffee shop on our list, where we ordered lunch. After Anne's last meeting (her Mondays are incredibly busy), we packed up, went grocery shopping for the days ahead, and went away from the coast, direction Northeast.Baca selengkapnya