Hotel Cocobeach Lome

... has any information on towns in Togo outside of Lome and Togoville---or the first blog where Togo is the destination, not just a point between two points of interest. <br><br>and to be honest, i dont know why people wouldn't visit here as much or more than ghana or other countries of west africa.<br><br>all the warnings i ...

... We decided the night before that it might be a better idea (based on how we were feeling) to split this day&#8217;s distance into 2 days: thus we would only walk about 20k instead of the expected 40 or so (Friday was intended to be our longest day of the trip originally). Kayleigh, Matt, and Leslie all seemed to feel pretty bad still in the morning: all of them had blisters on their feet and were aching pretty bad. I had some pain in my right ...

... off the side of the road that had not been peeled and we didn't know what they were washed with (the whole idea being to avoid dirty water). we figured we were already out after dark in a town we didn't know, where we didn't speak the language, and asking for directions from complete strangers--we might as well not worry about the food we ate.<br><br> The salad had lettuce (not cabbage-the only version of "lettuce" you find in ghana), tomatoes, onions, eggs, rice, mayo, and ...

... least had our backs to a wall so everything we owned was in our sight and out of reach of other people. Getting the ride was a headache. No one wanted to give us reasonable prices--obviously, because of the time and the color of our skin, and the fact that we didn't know where we were going so we werent sure how much the distance being traveled was worth. In the end, we asked the security guy which hotel to go to and had the driver take us there--5 ...

... By the end of the first lesson, it was clear how great the next few weeks will be. Kwasi is an amazing teacher and drummer. Because he has been teaching for so long (for over 15 years in Canada), he has developed a wonderful teaching style. He understands, and can overcome, the confusion between Western and African music learning styles. I am so excited to study privately with this master for the next two weeks.<br><br> The next day, we went to Kwasi's ...

... front at this restaurant was absolutely idyllic. The sand was expansive and very fine. The waves were huge and crashed in on the shore. We walked along the water&#8217;s edge but made sure not to get to close as there were signs posted saying that swimming was forbidden due to the currents. Many people drown each year off this coast. Our lunch was served right on the beach under a straw canopy and we ate ...

... now realise he meant have I ever... known one rather well (ahem!). When he asked if I had &#8216;aventures&#8217; in Mali, he didn&#8217;t mean did I have adventures of the description I write about here! <br><br>So I probably brought that one on myself, slightly (though God knows why he was asking me those things anyway. Well, actually, I do know, because he also told me he wants to marry une blanche), but... later that night I&#8217;d gone to meet some people I ...

... presentations' which include such exciting and oh so useful pages as (translated...) 'Material means : Motos. Tables. 2 flipcharts....' etc etc etc. Or definitions of volunteers. I never understood why they read them out... Then there is the 'textes', which are mainly the protocol for writing the reports. And every morning it is (apparently) necessary to go through each page, read out the title and says 'pas d'activité' for each area in ...

My first impressions were not good.<br><br>Le President, as HE is hereby known as that's what the staff call him (I don't.) came to pick me up from the 'hotel' and literally the first thing he asked me was 'do you have visa or mastercard?'. Ok; I'm exaggerating; it wasn't the FIRST thing he said - he did say 'bonjour, ça va?' first. But that is all. He didn't even introduce himself.<br><br>So I was sitting in the car thinking that I've made a very expensive mistake, as we went ...

... Uncle Sulley told the driver to pull over, but he wouldn&#8217;t, so he tried cutting off the tro-tro with the car. The driver wouldn&#8217;t give up. He kept on going. We got his license plate number, but then we saw that there wasn&#8217;t enough damage to make the hassle worth it.<br><br>On Sunday, the guys went with Alfred to the Krishna Temple, where Alfred was performing. I wanted to go, but I had head lice&#8230;&#8230;yeah, super lame. I did a treatment ...