Smiling Coast Guest House Banjul

... 20m of ground to the coach. Of course people in poor countries need income, but please can it be for doing something useful and not for hassling me over something I'm perfectly capable of doing myself. (Deep breath). Hassly ariport staff aside, the people that we met in The Gambia were friendly, welcoming and had ready smiles. The population is primarily muslim, but with a significant ...

... Oldham, Theme tune to BBC Radio 4's 'The Archers' [the theme tune to 'Focus on Africa doesn't sound any sweeter 6 years later, but Mr R has been glad to get away from the Archer's for a while, he can tell you]  Food (i) Fish and rice ...

... balde because he declared his love for me and said I was the best ever! My last night there I stayed till 1 am watching tv with the kids and having them fall asleep ontop of me. It was so hard to say bye especially as I aml bumming round Dakar tomorrow but there we go, its done now... but im sure it will hit me on the plane to ghana that ive left. I went to the gambia on sat with my friend lizzie and after the mlong 7 place ride, terribly slow ferry ...

... to find that the Gambian men are perceived as lazy by their women and by other West Africans. I managed a visit to the local museum which filled in some of the rich history but unfortunately suffers from developing country syndrome with insufficient funding for cultural affairs. I didn't make it to the white beaches but next time, if I'm lucky enough, I'd prefer to go even deeper in than Mansakonko to see what the interior holds.

... so determined to help there, even though we quickly noticed that this organization, struggling just to run smoothly, did not have many organized opportunities for impermanent student volunteers. So we decided to create our own forum to help - we proposed the idea of a weekend leadership and educational program that we organized, funded, and led by ourselves. Over the course of the next month or so we learned more about Voice and CPA, and received somewhat hesitant support for our idea ...

... about the good condition of the North Road from Georgetown to Barra. They were a very interesting, friendly, polite and professional bunch. enquiries were made about my home country, marital status (commiserations were given), job and the impressions of the country. The prevailing wings are from the North East and now was the time to be blown back to the coast. Without realising I was blown passed the turning to Georgetown ...

... it as an explanation for why he didn't feel confident enough to try to get the TV in the waiting room to work. Apparently being the only nurse in the entire hospital that morning and holding Bryan's life in his hands was one thing, touching a TV was another. If only we had known what was to come the next night, we would have been grateful for this one doctor. The next day was a slow painful one (especially without the TV), though one of the few successful ways we found to distract ...

... things. We went on a rainy day when the market was comparatively deserted according to our amazing guide/Wolof teacher Baboucarr, yet we could still barely fit through some of the winding alleys packed with products, fly covered fish and meat, and people shouting at us and grabbing our arms. All the while we were walking on muddy ground where we're fairly sure the sewage had flooded during the rain. But there was also so much that was beautiful there - especially the colorful fabrics ...

... Apparently there have been a few Charlies over the years and the incumbent individual is not quite as tolerant as his predecessors but I chose to withhold this nugget of information until my parents had got the patting and photography out of the way. It is quite terrifying in retrospect that the only thing separating us and these lethal reptiles was about 3 feet and a small wooden sign suggesting that people not try to embrace the other crocodiles. The ...

... w**e packed in the t**minal togeth** with goods and goats. Lewis needed fags and got an Uncle Sam security guard to get him some. Aft** five minutes we'd thought he'd ran off with our money, but then he turned up. We'd said to buy them fags for only 25 Dalasis, but he insisted on selling them to us for 20......... On arrival in Barra (in the Gambia not in Scotland.. nor Wales: it's worse than those ...