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Togo Slideshow
Togo
Travel Blogs from Togo
The beach
... bars that line it , so its clean. Through-out the day most people I've come across have been visitors from other parts of Togo, Ghana and the world. Just outside Coco beach there is a small fishing commune, where the men head out in the morning with ...
First Impressions
My first impressions were not good. Le President, as HE is hereby known as that's what the staff call him (I don't.) came to pick me up from the 'hotel' and literally the first thing he asked me was 'do you have visa or mastercard?'. Ok; I'm ...
Hey hey! We made it through week three!
Bonjour! Ca va? (Hello! How are you!) ...ok, well, that's all the French I really know! Haha! Oh! I have uploaded pictures onto two of my previous posts on here! (just wanted to mention that since ...
My first trip to la grande marchee
Dear All, Lots of firsts today. Technically I started work this morning. In reality it consisted of a prayer meeting (which I understood a fair marjority of, thank the Lord), a short sit down with Bob (monsieur le directeur) and some time at my desk ...
Day 73 - Togo, Lome to Kpalime - Into the Hills
... fun's just beginning. Stopped off at Kpalime for cook group shopping. Oliver and I went in search of an Adebayor Togo football shirt as he's trying to collect home countries of Arsenal players. No luck unfortunately. Market was a ...
Surprise Party
This morning my alarm was set as if everything was normal. I really wanted to get up and have morning prayer with Raoul and Dorothé one last time. However, I stumbled to the office to find that we missionaries were trooping off, without my dear ...
Down the Straight and Narrow
Hello from the hot side of the world! I hope that none of you have to deal with the ice storms that I have heard about! If any of you do happen to have excess cold and feel like sending it to this side of the world we will GLADLY accept ...
Togo or not to go...
... , whilst the Newry Togo Supporters Club has its own bar as a venue in Newry, Northern Ireland. Emmanuel Abedayor is Togo’s most famous footballer, he plays for Manchester city in the English Premier League. He retired from duty with the ...
Togo, egy frankofon orszag...
... talalkoztunk, hogy jobban megismerjuk egymast, egymas orszagat, lehetosegeit, es kitalaljuk hogyan tudunk jobban egyuttmukodni... Togo: Ghana keleti szomszedja... 5 millioan lakjak... fovarosa Lome, ami igazabol a Ghana-Togo hatar a tengerparton ...
Last day in Parakou
My last day in Parakou. In an effort to make the most of my least dizzy time of day, as soon as I'd gulped down the huge bitter morning quinine pills, I hopped a zemi and headed to the grand marché one last time. I was on a mission. The place was pretty ...
togothon, day 2 part I
... it. We hadn’t passed any towns or huts since Tsevie essentially. The landscapes were pretty amazing, though. The countryside of Togo is a very vibrant green and we were in the maritime region technically I think so you could see out pretty far. ...
Togo (Eng+Pt)
... boa meia hora e depois comprar banana assada para enganar o estomago. O carro deixou-me no inicio da Estrada nacional para o Togo e ai comecei a minha, ja bastante habitual, caminhada de dedo esticado. Poupo-vos os detalhes ne? Nesse dia avancei a volta ...
Nighttime
Dusk falls quickly over Parakou while I'm at dinner and I don't even notice. I step out into the cooled night breeze and walk the dusty few hundred yards to my room. In the dark and after my long trip I feel the need to sleep. It's 8:30. I don't care. I ...
My first African meal
Tchatchou is a little Fulani village about 20 km from Parakou. By little village you should essentially envision a bigger group of relatives, in this case, several brothers, who live in very close proximity. All along the road for a few kilometers are ...
Day 74 75 - Togo, Lake Togo, Kpessi - Togoville
... ), cinema (dubious... a blackboard with two DVD covers stuck on) and voodoo centre where you can meet the local chief... a highlight of Togo apparently. Others in the group headed there and were hit up for a stupid amount of money so we chose not to ...
Moses and the German soldier?!
... money for them to buy a truck! That is such a blessing for them! Mark brought it up on Saturday. The Togo Christian ladies hosted a women's retreat this past weekend. I think it was the first thing like this that the ladies have ...
Zemis, cows and English classes
So, hi all! I've had myself a complaint about not updating lately. So here I am. I have had a touch of trouble getting on to the internet lately. Some of it has to do with Benin and connections etc. Some of it also has to do with the ...
1 UB in Lomé
I slept pretty well last night and woke feeling "all systems normal." That was a relief. Sometimes stomach trouble here can be over quickly, sometimes it can last for weeks. I noticed today that my USB drive has gone missing. Small things like ...
Typiquement Africain
Ladies and Gents, I know some of you scoffed at my cow in the boot story. I mean really, who puts a live cow in the boot of their old Toyota? Now I don't have a picture from the cow in the boot incident, but I'm hoping the photo attached to this ...
Aug 2 Day 33 Lome to Accra
Last night we could not decide whether to stay in Lome or return to Accra; we decided to see what the whether was like in the morning. If it was nice then we would stay on the beach if cloudy drive to Accra. On our way to Accra. After breakfast at the ...
Day 71 72 - Togo, Lome - Coco Beach - Beach Bars
... ; Had to stay at the Togo border for possibly a few hours, not sure as listening to music and reading. Once through to Togo nothing much seemed to change from Ghana - people still waved, the beaches were still white sand and lined with palm trees, ...
Daily life.
Thought I'd fill you in on what we/I actually do here. There's an idea. For those of you unfamiliar with (perhaps unsupportive of) missions, the missionaries here are far from pith-hat-wearing, westernizing, enforcers of foreign values. For one thing, ...
The Market
All week I'd planned to brave the "grand marché" "toute seule" today. All alone. But when it was brought up, Fiona and Ted wanted to come along, so the three of us set out on foot for a walk that I'd heard was "much longer than it seemed" but came to ...
The Lion Sleeps...nope...She was awake!
... Reeves, Millers and all three of us teachers) left to go to Benin! Benin is the country just to the east of Togo.) Why would we go there you might ask? Well...because in Benin there is an amazing place called "Pendjari National Wildlife ...
Debut Togo
La capitale est agreable.C est rare pour unecapitale africaine. Le charme vient des arbres il y en a partout. Donc j ai fait ma visite de musée et le lendemain je suis parti pour ...
Seminars and PO in Lomé
... with our schedule. First we had reports from four men from different areas: Guy Alliagbedzi gave an account of the situation in Togo: two congregations - one in Lomé and one in Momé Hagou (plus a member which his 4 children in Kpalimé), total ...
Last day of seminars in Lomé
Last night was a bit difficult. I woke up periodically with stomach cramps and some gastro-intestinal adventures. That rather goes with the (African) territory as they say, and is certainly not uncommon. But it's still unpleasant. I was ...
Togo for a day...
... the lack of water didnt effect us too much and we spent the rest of the day relaxing and taking a few long walks. Since Togo and Benin are both former french colonies I had the rare opportunity to brush up on my francais with some friendly locals ...
Togo
... to be taking ages just to leave the country, so once our passports were stamped we set out and walked the 2km to the Togo border passing a graveyard situated in no-mans land, which is a strange sight. The truck followed us and we left to climb up a ...