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Tina was building up the blues last night… ‘He was blinded by the blackness of my long silk stockings…’ Phwoar! Dancers pout suggestively, undressing me with their eyes. Of course, they can’t actually see a dashed thing, dazzled by bright spotlights, but it seems like they are seducing me, and me alone. Great video...
Nineteen truckers wonder why we are awake at two o’clock in the morning. Remember Tina Turner has twenty trucks on this European tour? Right, well all tours have a driver that oversees truck movements – known as a “lead driver”. His job is to liaise with the production team and supervise truck unloading in...
There are those that do the bare minimum, becoming bored easily; and there are others who live life to the full, looking on any situation as an opportunity. Namibian, therefore, dozes off to a DVD whilst I make a Grand Tour of Sulfeld. This sleepy hamlet is not a village, our host Frank assures...
Ingo and Meryam, a couple I’d met in Sri Lanka, happen to live round the corner from Frank. After a brief phone call, over they come, armed with tea leaves from the subcontinent. My eyes light up; others seem indifferent, reaching for the treasure chest of alcohol bottles instead. On the south-west coast of...
A hundred yards is regarded as a good walk in Namibian’s book. Now, remember that we sleep in trucks? Right, well today we are not parked as cosily as normal – our lorries are parked approximately one hundred yards apart. Oh, if you live in Europe, and are happy to approximate distances, a yard...
There’s been no need to ‘turn’ Namibian, as it happens. In fact, he’s up and about, eager for exercise, like an asthmatic gazelle. The weather remains unfavourable, the mercury up to about 1 degree by late morning. Midday passes as miserably as the earlier hours. ‘I can hear my blood pressure,’ says Captain...
