L'lle des Paletuviers
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Drunk hotel managers and other characters
We could tell the manager at the pretty roadside "Trans Gambia Highway Lodge" was drunk. His red eyes rolled and he gesticulated and slurred as he showed us a room. He was a young man with a rapper's style baseball cap perched on the top of his head. He smelt of booze. It was the only place in the village. We stayed.
By nightfall he was practically paralytic. His wine split into the sand as he flung his hands about making ...
Trans Gambia Highway
... and jump from the bus despite the inflated fare we paid to cross.
We joined everyone with sense in the dusty line of brightly coloured head scarfs, babies bound tightly on the backs and walked the brick dust red road to the shore. We just missed a boat. A man had to be stopped from trying to jump on to its back. We sat in the shade with everyone else and waited.
The loading, unloading and turningarounding took an hour. As the ferry hit the bank ...
Toubakouta et Dakar: amul courant!
... est tout simplement magnifique pour nous petites Québécoises en manque d'eau et de verdure. On a fait quelques excursions très intéressantes. La première nous a emmenées en pirogue à travers les mangroves dans les bolongs, genre de labyrinthe de sentiers d'eau à travers la végétation. C'était magnifique. On a pu descendre à l'île aux coquillages (une autre île composée presque uniquement de coquillages) pour y voir un immense baobab sacré où avaient lieux jadis ...
Highway Blues
... pay it mind. Where there is space there is a lane. Shoulders of the road don't exist. In fact, the eight feet of earth next to the tarmac is often made into a lane itself. We weave and flow through the chaos. I adjust to a comfortable position, crack the window the feel the breeze, and look out to admire all the people going to and fro, hawking whatever makes money, selling their mangoes and nuts. About one mile down ...
Alittle change of plans...
... Lamin told us to call him when we got to Kwinella and he would come pick us up. There now at 7 a.m., we realized that it was probably too early to call him after keeping him up until 2 a.m. that morning. I, personally, was just happy to see daylight. After all, most of our breakdowns the previous night and the whole "bug in the ear" incident all happened in the dark, so day light felt "safe". We started walking towards Tendaba with a nice army man who was headed in the ...
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