Convoluted layovers used to really annoy me….. I still don’t love them but I have learnt to better exploit the opportunity to spend some time somewhere interesting. As part of my 51 hour trip to Yap in Micronesia I spent a lovely 23 hours in Seoul. Blissful! Seoul is a fantastic town and you can […]
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Lagos is undoubtedly the beating heart of West Africa. Whatever you get elsewhere in West Africa – the smells, good and bad, the beats, the hisses, the traffic…. you get so much more of it here. This is Africa with the volume turned up to full – not surprising given Lagos’ status as the largest
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On the highway to hell a.k.a Lagos……………. To be honest, I had been dreading this part of the trip from the get go! Not Lagos per se, but having to cross the border between Benin and Nigeria. It is apparently one of the most corrupt and stressful border crossings in the world. The planning… I
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While I could have been a totally lazy tourist today and hung out in Cotonou drinking coffee and surfing the internet, i figured I should break with tradition and be a good tourist. So off I headed to Ganvie – the Unesco stilt village. It is a village entirely built on the lake, originally to
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There aren’t many sites in Cotonou, but it is a pleasant enough place to while away a day or so. My priority when in town was to check out the Haring exhibition at the Foundation Zinsou. First step – try and find it! I walked for 4 k trying to find the building – damn
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Warning – this post is NOT for you if you don’t want to see photos of decomposing animals I arrived in Lome early and had a seamless border crossing in 20 minutes with no bribes. I have my ‘thank you sir’ and ‘how you doing my friend?’ chit chat down pat now and had no
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Finally solo! I said goodbye to the truck and hit up the sights of Accra I hitched a ride with the truck to the outskirts of Cape Coast to make my way solo to Accra. I was sad to leave the group and the truck. While I am definitely not cut out for group travel,
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We started the morning sweatily scrubbing 5 weeks of grit and grot off Aminah (the truck) and her kitchen equipment so she will be all clean for the next leg which starts in Accra in a few days. We all pitched in to scrub and mop. It is amusing to watch a bunch of overlanders
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I had a sobering morning visiting the slave fortress – St George’s castle – at Elmina. I had the whole place eerily to myself. Originally built as a Dutch fortress it is the oldest colonial building in Africa. As expected it was grim, made more so by the guide’s descriptions. Mental pictures of 150 women
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We had a quiet night’s sojourn in Akwidaa after a five hour drive from Ankasa. It was lovely and it was great to run along the beach this morning. The hotel was run down, but in a stunning location…. and am not sure anyone had stayed there for the past six months. We got to
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