Le Meridien Ibom Resort Uyo

Enfin une ville du *****ia qui est jolie et propre et ordonnee. Que cela est appreciable. Le *****ia est une destination difficile pour le touriste. Hotel de tres mauvais rapport qualite prix, ville sans ordre, corruption avec des polici**s qui sont pres a utilis** leur fusil pour faire ralentir les voitures pour avoir leur bakshish ou sinon ils frappent avec une violence inouie sur les vitres ou la carross**ie avec un long baton, musees ouv**ts mais comme ...

Woke at 6:00 to possibly my favourite breakfast of the trip - French toast with fresh mango and peach syrup. Had th**e been bacon I don't think I would have been able to contain myself. Once again the crowds gath**ed, photos w**e taken and they w**e all smiles and waves as we drove away, bouncing endless along the backstreets, passing rounded mud brick huts with pointed thatched roofs. Kids and adults running out to meet the truck - waving ...

... oth** is Lagos, the *****ian capital city, not really an option because of the dang** involved in going th**e). Unfortunately, though, the consulate was closed the day we got th**e because it was Tabaski, the Muslim feast holiday commemorating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice is son on God's ord**s, so we had an extra day to wand** around Calabar, eat well, and catch up on Int**netting. With all the bad news that has come out of Africa ov** the last ...

... turn down their kind offer. The Dream In my dream I was a tour guide to some friends in China. First I took my friend Bob from Washington, DC on a tour of a Catholic church and Buddhist temple complex. The two were part of the same compound, and the Catholic church looked much like the famous ruins of the cathedral in Macau. I showed Bob all around and then met a tall maroon-robed monk who took ...

... 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 ...

We leave Calabar next week and I have to say I think I will miss it more than anywh**e else! We need to do a few things in Abuja for four days (the journey th**e will take approx 13 hours by bus o yay...) before flying to London. Ev**ything is fast and mad as usual. Got a bit too mad for my liking last week - my work sup**visor was in a car crash last weekend and has been in hospital since. He's ok but has a broken arm - he was in a coma for a couple of days. One of the passeng**s in the ...

... 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 ...