Dakar Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

I finally got some sleep...yay!! I slept from about 11:00 pm here to 11:30 am here. It was nice to get that much sleep. I needed it for sure. I got up and took a shower and called Mom to figure out a taxi for me to get to her school. I had no money, no directions, so thank God Veronique (my mom's maid got here). I told her I needed a taxi to the...

sat 2/2 Left home and caroline at about 0800 for coach to h'row .... arrived about 6.30pm after easy flight. no time difference so not too tiring at all - just long - 6hrs.  out of airport by about 7.30. Met at the airport by cherif, office driver, and practiced my french hard for the next 1.5 hrs of driving around ... to collect some basics sho...

I wouldn't say anything as clichéd as "this is the life" or anything like that, both because it's not that great here, and clichés are to be avoided like the, uh, peste, by any writer worth his, uh, paper (dodging clichés can be difficult). Of course I hear people refer to Thailand as 'paradise' and I don't know what they mean. I guess it can be...

Having said that spending 3 months in Malaysia is not that usual for me, spending Christmas in the sun in Senegal is even more unusual ! I think that this year is one of the years in my life when I have seen sun the most!! I love it!!! Even Toulouse is sunning in comparison to Bristol but spending the winter holidays on the beach cannot be compa...

I really couldn't even tell you what I've done in the past week. I've been to the beach. I've been to the markets. I've bought, killed, and eaten a chicken all by myself. I've learned how to make traditional Senegalese food and I've been praised by my neighbors on my Senegalese cooking skills. I've finished reading my ninth English novel in this...

The past few days have been quite interesting. My classes are going well, although French can be a bit frustrating as we're conjugating irregular verbs to "ameliorer" (better) our vocabulary use. I'm not sure how that's helping get around the city. Wolof has been extremely useful and actually fun to learn. Anyone you talk to in Wolof here will i...