Banjul Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So, for three weeks I was in the UK, the first time I have been back since I left in September 2006. I had a wonderful time at home spending time with family and friends. I ran around like a headless chicken and didn't get to see everyone I would like to, or enough time with the people I did see. I was repeatedly touched at the efforts lots of p...

In trying to make the most of my time, I've tried to use my vacations to travel around a bit and see different places. Over the Christmas break I went to a very bizarre country. They spoke the same language as I did but much faster and with a comic range of accents. Despite having lots of space, people had built houses up into the sky so they we...

So it's been almost a year since I arrived in The Gambia. As my VSO placement wound its way to a close, I've been doing a lot of reflecting on the last 12 months. I can't believe it's been a whole year since I was saying goodbye to friends and family, suffering countless inoculations, and trying to wrestle my luggage into one bag. Looking back a...

In February 2007 a momentous event in world history occurred. Mr and Mrs Hart of Thornborough, England, set forth on the treacherous journey to deepest Africa. Their mission was twofold - to scout out and report back to curious residents of their village, and to check their absent first born child was eating her greens. State visits by roaming R...

Good day all, wherever you are and whatever mischief you are up to. I write to respond to those of you who emailed expressing surprise that I had made it to yet another anniversary of my glorious entrance to this world. My 26th Birthday was a memorable one - spent with other volunteers on a deserted beach under the stars, dancing around a campfi...

This article appeared in The Daily Observer (Gambian National Newspaper) on Thursday, 18 January 2007 -------- Jammeh starts curing HIV/AIDS patients today As the world's scientists and medical doctors continue to scout for an HIV/AIDS cure, which they have not been able to find for the past 20 years, The Gambian leader President Yahya Jammeh ye...

Apologies for the lateness of this entry, I'm now officially on Gambian Time. Well the good news is I'm still alive. No one is more surprised than myself. With the possible of exception of my landlord who has so far had to rescue me from a number of 'emergencies' including but not limited to the following: a swarm of locusts, a near gas explosio...

Dodgy border crossings and river crossings to the capital. Also got our CB confiscated