Denis Hotel Abuja

... road (though I don't think anyone realised it would be our last show** for 10 days...highest mank-scale yet)!!

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 ...

... 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 ...

... barracks early and had *ur fish. Act*r was hung *v** s* I had a wh*le medium size fish al*ne, and it was mighty sweet. It is hard t* describe, but imagine the tend**est fish y*u have had, add the best seas*ning y*u kn*w and add s*me *ni*n/chilli sauce, s**ved with fried p*tat*es, eat it with y*ur hand and y*u get the picture. Sitting at the barracks, y*u get pe*ple trying t* sell y*u ev**ything, and I swear that y*u can get ev**ything y*u want (except fr*m a pink baby b ...

... him. It had started raining so when we took the bikes we got pretty wet, but as it was 25 degrees it was not the end of the world. The poor bik** was shiv**ing and he did not find it amusing at all. Back at my place, I watched 'who wants to be a millionaire' *****ia. The funny thing was that when people asked the audience for help, the audience had no idea the three times they asked for help, and this w**e pretty easy questions which I knew the answ**s to, but it was pretty ...

... be** as one of us had to be able to find the way home, even if I had little idea wh**e we w**e. Aft** a while, Actor was getting pretty drunk and as he was attending church early next morning, and that fact that I did not want to get to drunk in this area, we decided to head home. We got a taxi all the way home, which was pretty far, even furth** than I was last weekend. Back home the electricity was out, and the bar was out of bottled wat**, so I had to drink three fanta to ...

... me all ov** the place and trying to show me their place. And it is incredibly annoying when people say that they have the exact same shirt, in fact a whole shop of them, when it turns out they don't have anything else than cheap copies of west**n clothes. It has to be said that it was 45 degrees and blue sky so I was sweating like a Christmas goat (the *****ian v**sion of the idiom). Aft** giving up I decided to buy some mat**ials and get someone to make it ...

I have not been writing lately, cus there has not been happening much. I have been at the steering meeting at CDD and also been a part of the lay out of the new webpage, which really needed a face lift. I have been a good boy and worked on my thesis instead of writing bloggs and i have 26 000 words now. Tomorrow morning I'm taking the bus to Ife, close to Ibadan, which is two hour away from lagos. I'm meeting up with Ollie to attend this Yorube culture festival. After that we're going ...