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The POGO AFRICA adventure has BEGUN! As all POGO journeys do, with a single "boing". I had to upgrade the stick with a heavy-duty spring, my good friend Jon G convinced me that I was SO FAT that I would break it if I didn't. Thanks for the sound advice, DUDE! :) ANYWAYS I arrived at the Lagos airport, the customs lady ...

Slight sleep in, except for those on cook group i.e. me. No complaints though as lovely night's sleep in airconditioned comfort. At least I didn't wake with hangover like Oliver and a few others did as a result of the previous night's festivities. Set up cook station in the hotel car park, next to a rat infested drain, for a scrumcious breakfast of scrambled eggs, fried tomatos and toast. Not the nicest ...

Clara's birthday! So Mum wakes ev**yone up with the dancing Christmas reinde** thing. Don't worry its not a Christmas carol... more a bouncy (slightly irritating to some) jingle. Harold's been moving during the night so toe v**y itchy. It doesn't look like a worm.. well kinda you can just see a raised line in a U shape. Oliv** thinks it's a blist** but I'm pretty sure it's not. How can flipflops blist** the top of your ...

As my journey started at 6 I had to wake up at 05.30 to be sure that I got on time. That was hard as I ended up going out for some be**s with Actor, and that ended around half past twelve. Earli** that evening I tried to post a blog at the local cyb** café, but aft** trying to log in for 45 minutes I gave up aft** getting into an argument with the people owning the place, as I felt it was wrong to pay for something that I didn't get. They didn't seem to care, so I ...

We woke up by knocking on the door at half past seven. Who the hell could that be? Olly got up and looked. "Breakfast for you". They had brought us breakfast at half past seven. We told him that we had not ord**ed it and asked him to leave. At ten, we ord**ed breakfast and five minutes lat** we got it. Cold as ice, and off course it was the same as at half past seven. We changed hotel to get bett** s**vice and we now paid 4000 ...

wow, *****ia is hot! Since my flight was screwed up due to snow, I was delayed a day and so I "wasn't on the list" to be picked up from the airport in Lagos when I arrived. Since I was flying originally on a Friday, I couldn't reach anyone at the institute I was visiting and int**viewing with - all home for the weekend, so couldn't tell them I ...

With approximately 150 million people, *****ia is Africa's most populous nation and home to about half the people in the West African region. It was und** British control during the colonial **a and is dominated by three main tribal groups - the Yoruba in the southwest, the Igbo in the Southeast, and the Hausa in the north. While north**n *****ia is ov**whelmingly Muslim, the south is mostly Christian and Animist, and th**e has been some religious strife in ...

After spending 3 months in Ibadan - The place we have called home for the last 2 years - we set forth to Egypt the great land of the Pharaohs. Need not say that we desperately needed a break. Normally this is easy to tell, as soon as every small detail is turned into a monument in my mind, and feuds are easiest to find then hurray we deserve break ( mark you we ...

In the morning, Mary and I walked into the town and got a motorbike taxi to see how coco is made. The first place we visited wsan't ready, but the second place was in full flow. The okada ride was scary going back from the bush into the town, but I survived. What I found amusing was the childrens reaction to me. Some of them are scared, some jump up and down with excitement, some laugh at me and some just wave. Mary decided she wanted some fruit ...

The next morning we got a taxi to the University of Ibadan. The driveway of the university is so far that it saves alot of time by getting a taxi at least part of the way! Although it was very beautiful to look at! After a quick visit to the archeology department, we went to the zoo. A zoo, which if it was in England, there would be some serious explaining to do and animal welfare offices would close it! However, the animals seemed mostly happy. The variety included ...