Mammy Yoko Hotel
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From Mammy Yoko to Port Loko
Seeing a UN aircraft 'crashed' off the main runway an the airport when I arrived did not inspire confidence. I was also not met at Immigration as expected. However, a visa was issued based on papers I had. Through customs, and a change of 20 pounds to receive a handful of well-used strange looking notes in exchange. I fought past the offers of …
Paradise, Playboys and Ho's
... served on a sandy beach overlooking a clear river which promptly joined the Atlantic ocean. It was so good that I forgot to take photos of my hut!
This is where I spent my final four days in Sierra Leone. One good thing that came from the visa nightmare was that I had company for a few days which was much welcomed especially upon returning from the beach on Thursday afternoon. What we saw back at our tiny 'resort’ was no less than ...
Tokeh Beach- Mattress on the sand paradise
... teach us Creole. He'd fled to Conakry during the war and come back to find his business along with the village and community in ruins. Emphatically he called his bit of beach "We Are Here Still." The war certainly dashed the more ambitious tourism plans for Tokeh and several mouldering half finished hotels filled with bush like concrete Machu Picu's can be found by the beach.
It's a lovely simple natural affair at Hassan's. There were candles ...
The Teary End
At ending of the last entry, we had finally made it back into Freetown after that crazy bus trip and seven of us jumped into a cab (normal sedan) with poor Fab crammed into the boot. As we crawled over a speed hump there was a terrible ripping sound and I looked behind to see the damage, and there, sitting in the middle of the road was our suspension! Our driver jumped out and grabbed it then passed it on to Fab in the boot. Not surprisingly, we didn't notice any difference to ...
Mercy Ships
... working in the operating room with a general surgeon from New Zealand doing hernia repairs.
Rob is working as a "general steward" which includes housekeeping duties such as washing floors and cleaning windows.
We both are getting settled into our new routine and jobs and enjoying meeting our new colleagues who hail from all over the world.
We have plenty of free time ...
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