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Bintumani Hotel Freetown

11 Man of War Bay, Aberdeen Hill Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Tokeh Beach- Mattress on the sand paradise

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... cheap and plentiful Chinese motor bike we rode on, like all the others, bore a curious inscription. "Exceeding performance. Feel the live". It said cheerfully inexplicably. It was as if a factory load of stickers had arrived in Shanghai before anyone thought to check them, and resignedly they were slapped on regardless. During our contemplation of luxury the bike's exhaust managed to burn a pretty pattern on Sarah's calf. This has resembled a charming ...

Christmas Sierra Leone Style

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... wishing that we were staying to join the fun. The road down the peninsula is currently being sealed so at the moment it is a dusty and difficult route, and coupled with the traffic the 8km took a couple of hours. We turned off the main road and started down a narrow track towards Lakka beach. Five minutes before our arrival we could already hear the music, the shouting, the laughing. This was no quiet stretch of sand. As we bundled out of the cab the ...

Freetown Dance Party

A travel blog entry by robspackman

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In Graham Greene's 1936 book 'Journey Without Maps’ he stops off briefly in Freetown on his way to Liberia. He is quite uncomplimentary about the place, a position he revises after being sent to live and work there during WW2 when he grows to love the place. We needed much less time to feel at home in Freetown and of all the places we have been so far we would choose here to stop and work if it was possible. Graham Greene describes the huge cotton tree in the centre of the city ...

The Teary End

A travel blog entry by riceandbeans

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At ending of the last entry, we had finally made it back into Freetown after that crazy bus trip and seven of us jumped into a cab (normal sedan) with poor Fab crammed into the boot. As we crawled over a speed hump there was a terrible ripping sound and I looked behind to see the damage, and there, sitting in the middle of the road was our suspension! Our driver jumped out and grabbed it then passed it on to Fab in the boot. Not surprisingly, we didn't notice any difference to ...

More from Mercy Ships

A travel blog entry by hursts

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Hello to Family and Friends.

This is Sarah back with you, it seems Rob got a lot of positive responses with his blog and I tried my best to convince him to write again but he's procrastinating so I've decided to take up the reins once again.

We are now more than half way through our trip and we leave Africa in less than 2 weeks. So far Mercy Ships has been the most impacting, challenging and ...

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