Why Oshivelo is not the vegetarian capital of the world:

1. Most (or all) people don’t think a meal without meat is a meal at all – dinner = meat + pap, period.
2. There are no vegetables in Oshivelo (and often no milk or butter either). Closest shop: 96 km
3. At least once a week Barney’s kitchen turns into butchery. You see, he has a big band saw for chopping up meat (mostly goats, but the other night one of Barney’s fathers cow got hit by a car so they had to chop her up). You can hear the saw and feel the strong smell of raw meat from outside the house. In the kitchen animal body parts are lying all over. There is blood on the floor, the walls and everywhere else for that matter. So I sneak in, dodging the bloody limbs and make my way to the gas stove preparing lentils and pasta :)

But I eat good food. I just go to Spar in Tsumeb (where the vegetarian food selection is actually bigger than in an average shop in Norway) and bring all the goodies to Oshivelo.