What is an "R+R weekend" I hear you ask! For those not in the missionary-life know- "R+R" is rest and relaxation and something that AIM Namibia supports. One weekend a month you are encouraged to get away from the place where you have been posted, "time out" so to speak. So after working last weekend we took Friday off and headed north into Kaokoland, our destination- the Kunene River Lodge.
Well loved by volunteers from all over the northern region, the lodge was taken over by an English couple 2 years ago. Their daughter was working in Opuwo, no less, and on a visit out to see her they stayed at the lodge, fell in-love with it, and it just happened to be on the market!
We had borrowed a tent which we pitched right on the riverside with a view of Angola across the water.
The guys in the pictures were our neighbours for the weekend, and unlike my previous experience with the baboon (see earlier posts), we all stayed friends!
It was a wonderful, relaxing weekend and has given us a bit of a boost for the month ahead!
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Hi Folks,
delighted to hear you're alive and well. Sounds like all going well. Glad Poppy is surviving - I am dogsitting some Labradors this weekend - don't think she'd have liked that.
Drop me a wee email some time with an update.
Love Nat
PS Col is in Malawi at the mo!
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