The deceptive properties of GRAVEL ROADS

Text by Tim Osborne Namibia is blessed with a fine system of roads, bisecting the country and connecting all the major cities. Once off this arterial tarmac highway, you will be on a gravel road. All the district roads marked as a ‘D’ with four numbers on the map and...

Namibian Time Mechanical or Cultural ?

Air Namibia Flamingo Magazine February 2011 Text by Tim Osborne It doesn’t take visitors to Africa long to realise that the continent runs on a different sense of time. Rather than actual time as related to GMT, this is cultural time. When the first European settlers...

Farm Gate Dyslexia

Flamingo February 2005  Text and photos Tim Osborne Welcome to Namibia! Driving here is unlike driving anywhere else, because of the high number of gravel roads. If you’re driving on a gravel road, you’ll more than likely run into a gate stretched across it, usually...
Dadels and Rosyntjie Jam

Dadels and Rosyntjie Jam

                                                                                                Air Namibia, Flamingo, Jan 2006 Photos and text by Tim Osborne Dadels and Rosyntjie Jam “Where did you find those?” asked Martha as she watched me stirring the sticky...
Beware of Falling Meteors!

Beware of Falling Meteors!

                                                                                 Air Namibia, Flamingo April 2005 Text and photos by Tim Osborne Beware of Falling Meteors! Is Namibia a place where your chances of being hit by rocks falling from heaven are high? You...