Randekhi Royal Hotel Benin City

... wat** is ov**rated. We had one bucket and a large contain** on the side so we managed. Olly came lat** and was dead tired. Aft** sleeping we got picked up by Charles, a v**y nice *****ian who works at Oxford. Lat** I connected two and two, and it turned out it was Charles Ukeje, a guy I'm using in my thesis, so I realized that I was in good company. We went to eat and off source we w**e not allowed to pay, as that is the host's task. Aft** the food we went to the main ...

... oth** *****ian city we passed through, but my main recollection of its unpleasantness was the choking soot and vehicle exhaust fumes hanging low ov** the city that lit**ally left a bad taste in my mouth. We continued a short distance farth** east to a place called Abba Town, and looked for a place to camp as it was beginning to get dark. We all had s**ious conc**ns about the safety of bush camping in such a heavily populated area, so Dave followed ...

... are also quite vivid. He was fairly short, p**haps in his mid 50s, ov**weight, and rath** sallow complected, and balding on top with an awful comb-ov**. He had a thick New York/New J**sey accent, gruff voice, and wore a blue dress shirt, yellow tie, and suspend**s - in oth** words a pathetically av**age mid-level management corporate drone. I think I truly hated him. As I said most of the images are vague, but I recall a few ...

At last, the past months have not been easy, a lot of work and a lot of rough events around us. A nice trip is very welcomed. So we are off to Ghana. We'll first stop in Benin Republic for a couple of days in the same hotel as easter. This time no bikes only car !!

We drove the two hours from Ogbere to Okomu with more than 18 road blocks. Each of them using a different technique to stop us. Most of them were friendly and wondered where we where going. Even 18 "friendly" road blocks its a lot ! We finally arrived in Okomu we were happy to see my wife and baby. She did not recognize me at first. As planned and even before ofloading the car we took a nice motorcycle ride in the Okomu tracks.

... in the same time, so not much was done. Corentin, my cousin is coming along with me, his aim is to arrive on time to take a ride on my old Yamaha 250 YZ before going back to Europe. For now, I'm in *****ia, Corentin is in US and the car is in France. We are both doing the necessary pap** work on our side. And I'm struggling to construct a chassis for the extra tank... left in France ...