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Paradise, Playboys and Ho's
... a few weeks time.
I was hoping to stay with the group for a few days but due to the visa nightmare I took to my default plan and headed 20km south of Freetown to the paradise that is Cockle point at River No.2. There is no other word for it, paradise. I was a bit bummed out due to being back on my own and without my wingman but I couldn’t help but be lifted by my awesome little beach hut which overlooked the mountains and where ...
Tokeh Beach- Mattress on the sand paradise
... His sons made a fire each evening for us and insisted on sitting up and 'guarding' us though the night. Despite the fact that the only immediate danger appeared to be over eating the fantastic fish, fired plantain and rice the cooked us, oh that and the crabs that made there tricksy little way into Sarah's smalls. (Naughty crabs!).
Each morning Hassan's boys brought us coffee, omelettes and bananas and the freindly man himself would come to ...
Freetown Dance Party
... and loved every minute of it. Bargaining with market stall holders, eating lovely food, doing a lot of chatting to a lot of people and enjoying the dirty, noisy, jostling pandemonium of it all. Due to the vagaries of West African travel we first arrived in the city close to 3am, and we left it this morning at 5.30am. On both occasions the streets were full people trading, calling out, dancing in the road. This is the city that really doesn’t ever sleep.
Sarah, Bo, 5th Jan ...
Freetown
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Old Wharf Steps and Old Guard House: lead up from the Government Wharf, built in 1818. Many former slaves sent to Freetown by the British climbed
Bunce Island: Located approximately 20 miles upriver from Freetown in the Sierra Leone River, it was the largest British commercial fort/slave castle on the West African Coast. This is one of 40 of such forts built along the coast by the Europeans. It served as a ...
Mercy Ships
... 78 beds, and an outpatient clinic. The ship with more than 400 volunteers from around the world will provide free health care to the people of Sierra Leone and training for health care workers until November.
Life-changing surgeries such as tumor removal, cleft lip and palate correction, cataract removal, orthopedics and plastic surgery will be offered onboard.
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