Hotel Presidential Port Harcourt

Thursday I was on my way to Port Harcourt, the place was all the white oil-people are kidnapped from. The bus was close so I walked th**e. We w**e 12 people travelling, all with pretty much luggage, and the bus company had the choice between an 11 seat** and a 14 seat**, and if you by know und**stand *****ian logic we took the 11 seat**, and it was crowded. Luckily, it was only 9-10 hours sitting on top pf each oth**☺. I was smart enough to get the spot next to a v**y cute girl on ...

Hallo zusammen! Ich bin imm** noch in Aba, bzw. wied**. Die letzte Woche waren wir wied** im "Dorf". Eigentlich ist hi** nicht viel passi**t und ich hatte urspruenglich geplant, letzte Woche schon die Weit**reise anzutreten, all**dings ist dieses Wochenende Ebele von Lagos h**gekommen, und dann kann ich morgen mit dem zusammen zurueck dorthin fahren. Ich hab also auch weit**hin, bis ich das Land v**lasse, einen Bodyguard/Kind ...

... You can travel to Cam**oon for less than 15 pounds from Calabar and from Lagos, you can go to Ghana for 20 pounds or less so I may try to do a West African journey. I might sound strange when I return - I think I've picked up lots of *****ian phrases without realising! When I first came h**e I rememb** no-one could und**stand me and now, even when I meet new people, no-one has any problems which makes me think ...

... which is wh**e many of the British links with Calabar are found eg. Mary Slessor, Hope Waddell. It was a beautiful place - it looked just like something out of Little House on the Prairie! Myself and two oth** girls went to look at the graveyard (v gothic looking) and got attacked by Bull Ants. You might rememb** me telling you about Soldi** Ants in the rainforest - these do pretty much the same thing but have big heads. *****ian ants are horrible and so vicious ...

... for the record - masqu**ades are people who dress up in traditional costume so that you cannot identify them as even being people. They appear at events or on streets and aim to get money from people. I p**sonally find them horrible and bizarre as my first meeting was when they jumped out onto our taxi bonnet banging the car with sticks!). Two patients drew pots and one drew a box which I found so odd. We then asked them ...

... She was only about 5 or 6 and didn't know wh**e she lived or wh**e she was - we think that she had been used a "home help" (this is basically a p**son who does ev**ything around the house for a family - washing, cooking, cleaning...). We took h** with us to work and we handed h** into the police on the way back. We all are hoping that a family comes forward to collect h**. If she doesn't get collected then it's likely that she'll go to a centre for people who need community ...

... placements are v**y int**esting and v**y enjoyable. I am working two schools h**e which couldn't be more diff**ent. Auntie Margaret High School a huge school with large grounds. It was set up as a charitable organisation for disadvantaged childrens. The oth** school, Flieyo Model, is basically a hut on a puddle! Th**e is no floor, no light, no resources and the children get sent home if they have not paid their fees. Caning is practised h**e still - I had to hide my ...

... to 30 beds and was used for private cold cases only. It is slowly turning into a trauma centre with an em**gency room, single theatre (soon to become 2) and recov**y. At present we have an OT nurse from Australia who has arranged theatres so that they run smoothly (even though the theatre is on the first floor!!), a logistician from USA who although white, has spent so much time in Africa that he could almost be African, an Italian nurse (the only female) who ...

... nowh**e, et go ahead. I arrive at Calabar around 17h00, aft** 70km more than planned. It's too late to cross the bord** tonight (220 km). I attack an Okada to find a small & cheap hotel (th**e is few visible hotels and night is coming up). 3700 NGN the night, one AC grass-cutt** type. I will manage. I'm not hungry: one packet of Rothmans, one coke. I want to take off v**y early tomorrow morning and escape from this ****ing country. § 2. When the bord** was th**e Friday 23/09 ...

In answ** to a forum thread on travelpodium, I had sev**al dodgy runs in Alg**ia and *****ia. The dodgiest: I was in *****ia for business, in the city of Port Harcourt, Riv**s State. Had to buy myself pants and socks, so I got on the car with one resident colleague and our *****ian driv**, Tony. I have plenty of dodgy stories with Tony driving, as he would get psychopathic within seconds, especially with local cops. That was one of my first days in ...