Bolingo Hotel and Towers Abuja

... road (though I don't think anyone realised it would be our last show** for 10 days...highest mank-scale yet)!!<br><br>Anoth** highlight was found in Yankari National Park, in which the cystal clear springs provided an amazing aft**noon floating on and und** the wat**. The wat** was so clear you could see for ov** 200 metres - simply stunning amoungst the green forest surrounds. We w**e lucky to escape any losses from the ...

... trip act as my wife to try and calm them down, that didn't work. By 12.30am a couple of us headed to the Hilton Hotel niteclub. Our lack of clothing standard meant we w**e refuse entry. In true African style, money talks. Not from me but but a couple of people who wanted us to ent** the club. It was refused but in the end a distraction was created and I snuck in along with a couple of oth**s. The music and en**gy was awesome, and thankfully no prostitutes....By 5am I made it back to my hotel....

... had I hitchhiked. Plus, we've idled for ov** two hours before the taxi finally left the bord** until the vehicle was fully loaded with passeng**s and that furth** reduced my chances of making a small tour through Lagos and bumping into my future host. The actual distance to Lagos from the bord** doesn't go above 130 km but going the first 60 is ABSOLUTE HELL!!! The numb** of improvised checkpoints ev**y 50 met**s and the aggressiveness of the makeshift, money thirst offic**s, a ...

... without sadness that we pulled out of the Sh**aton carpark. Yay goodbye Abuja. As nice as the first day was, the Sh**aton turned out to be a suffocating hell hole aft** Mr Fitness decided to claim some cut backs and charge us a hilt to use the pool and facilities. Aft** paying 10 quid to use the pool I returned the next day to use the rest of my 24hrs worth only to be told "No, you pay 2,000 each time you swim. You swim for 1 minute, 2,000 ...

... quart**s car park at the back of the hotel to pitch our tents (professional hobos). Also been granted free use of pool and facilities. Bonus. Quiet night as totally shatt**ed from long day on the road. Amazing how exhausting doing nothing is. Onto oth** matt**s I think we've decided to fly ov** Angola. VISA's are still proving v**y difficult to come by and if by some miracle we do manage to get them they will only be a 5 day ...

... m*vies, and luckily, we had electricity m*st *f the evening s* it w*rked *ut fine. Next day was the same, watching m*vies and relaxing. H*wev**, it was 17 may, N*rway's nati*nal day and I felt that *nly sitting inside was rath** b*ring s* Act*r and I went t* Abacha barracks t* have s*me r*asted fish. The r*asted fish is m*re *r less the *nly f**d I really like h** in *****ia, even if I have b*ught pizza the last week n*w, as I d* n*t want any m*re chicken. We went t ...

... is really useful for me. Aft** a while, we decided to sit outside as the neighbours had a party. It was a 'one year aft** my husband died' party and it was mainly women from a minority tribe in the east. They w**e dancing and shouting, as African women do. It was v**y nice and we had much fun watching them. Off course we had be** and the kids w**e running to the small local place had picking them up for us as we went along. Around seven, this oth** guy was going home so I ...

... 40 degrees, so we w**e thirsty and off course, we went. This cool place turned out to be some kind of township, or at least a v**y rural area. Just crossing the street was a story in itself, and aft** 2 minutes, we barely made it. The place was filled with bars, exclusively plastic chairs. We headed towards Actor's place and that was the one filled with the cutest girls, which was ok with me. Actor did not like be**, so he was drinking 11, 5% wine like it was wat**. I stuck ...

... he thought that he could win a noble price. He was dead s**ious and I had some problems keeping my cool. Nonetheless, he is a nice guy and I appreciate the effort, but I promise you to donate a kidney if he wins the Nobel price in lit**ature. Aft** that I went to the market, which is a v**y busy place on Saturdays. I walked around and tried to find a nice shirt, but they don't have the nice ones, as the one I bought in Zambia. Because I'm white, people w**e ...

... I worked on the thesis from seven in the evening to almost one in the morning. I now have 28 000 words (out of 30 00), and still needs 4-6000 words, which means that I'm at least not struggling to get enough words. How good it is, is anoth** matt**. I hope they can give me some good feedback at CDD before I go home. By the way, it seems like the comment button works now so please post a comment and celebrate that it is up and running again;)