La journée d'hier a été dédiée à mettre en boite ce brave Big Toy! A 7:00, après une nuit réparatrice, climatisée, dans un appart où nous nous sommes préparé un diner somptueux: 1 boite de sardine + une salade géante de fruits frais, préalablement rafraîchis, au Palm Club, indiqué par une rencontre à Nouakchoot, quelques épisodes plus tôt, nous ...

The flight from Paris to Abidjan was smooth. Our flight path took us down through my old pastorate in the South of France, and since the weath** was clear I could recognize a few places on the Medit**ranean Coast, both on the French and the Spanish sides of the bord**. The weath** ov** the Sahara was mostly clear too. I always find it fascinatin...

I'm not supposed to be in Cote d'Ivoire tonight. I'm supposed to be in Lomé, Togo according to my itinerary and plane tickets. Today was quite an "African day." In the morning I had visits with several church members who came to the hotel. Mr. Mabout wanted to purchase a used laptop over the Internet for his personal use in some classes he was t...

Today was a travel day. I saw Mr. Mabout in the morning to take care of housekeeping items, budgeting organizational issues. I had a quick salad at the hotel and then caught the shuttle to the airport. I was to take the Kenya Airways flight to Abidjan. The check in area of the Douala airport has recently been redone. They hung a suspended ceilin...

french army stay there. like other countries in west africa, ivory shops everywhere