Denis Hotel Abuja

... leaving h**e we w**e told that the road to Abuja wasn't in the best of conditions - how right they w**e. To make it clear for you read**s - aft** leaving the tar sealed road we lit**ally had to use a riv**/road, road for the majority of the time but it had a chanel dug out by the rains. As no oth** ov**land truck had passed through this way it was a challenge to even find the right path at times. When we passed villages the locals would wave excitedly in our ...

... Olive Baboons, which frequently steal bags looking for food.<br> Finally our enjoyable trip up north was topped by the nicest bushcamp found to date - near Numan, the plush grass and mangoes trees reminded me of Brisbane backyards. Though th**e was one of the group that barely noticed - Brad come down with Malaria and was restricted to doing little ov** the next 10 days of fev**, aches, vomitting and gen**al lifelessness....

... numb** of them not even wearing uniforms (the ones who w**e being usually rowdy faced, batt**ed with muscles and sporting their AK's in a menacing mann**), was absolutely intimidating. I readily assumed this was their v**y intention: be as scary as possible to bett** extort money from little scared puppies. My fellow passeng**s informed me that what I was seeing was nothing; I was lucky it was a Sunday and all of the weeklong sinn**s had gone to church to confess and purge them, so ...

... an hour, 2,000. Two hours, 2,000." I was like "Well that's just a bloody rip off" and stormed out... quite possibly using a few more expletives as I did so. ******. S**iously do not put a wat** baby next to a pool and advise she can't go in. The end result will be a v**y grumpy young lady. Diary Entry­:- Now currently driving through *****ia thinking how v**y similar the land we're passing through is of Australia. Frequently I am looking upon ...

... VISA which means no sightseeing just long long drive days. Up at 5am, driving by 6, lunch on board and arriving to bush camp on dark. Not really my cup of tea... especially with no music to keep me ent**tained!! Eating good food and laying on a beach in beautiful South Africa howev**... now that's my kinda holiday. For the rest of our time in Abuja we didn't do an awful lot... mainly because th**e's not an awful lot to do. It's ...

... 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 ...