Lome Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This isn't really an update, more just a quick note to say that I have not in fact been kidnapped or decided to disappear and am indeed still in Togo. I've spent the last three weeks in a little village working in an orphanage and teaching English to pre-teens (which, I've discovered not entirely to my surprise, I do not enjoy even a tiny little...

Now, as you all are well aware, being a lone white girl in West Africa means HASSLE. It's not nearly as bad here as it was in Mali and Burkina (or maybe I’m just used to it, or my answers are better prepared, or it’s, most liekly, because I’m rarely on my own...) but it’s still pretty constant if I’m out and about b...

I lasted a grand total of two weeks at the social centre. It was incredibly frustrating... Every morning, they'd come in before 7.30 (do you know how long it's been since I've woken up after 6 am?! It is ridiculous.) and so the morning meeting would commence. Morning meetings include discussing on the day before's events (often someone quoting t...

Togo, one of the smaller countries in Africa. Its all hustle and bustle in the central market area but layed back and relaxed in the rural areas. Our entry to the country was via a little used border crossing near the Ghana waterfall area of Wli. Ghana bureaucracy was at its best but Togo didn't seem to care about much, only wanting to process o...

Went back to visit my adopted family in Adapkawmé for a couple of days. There my friend taught me how to drive a "moto". Le Moto Affordable motorbikes here are mostly chines utility choppers with names i haven't seen in other country's. Few people have sports bikes, because on these road's they're not practical to carry Long wooden poles, bar an...

ILomeck to all the guideline's in the little book the travel doctor gave me; no street vendor food; only bottled water ect. Still, i went a little crazy with the traditional food and so collapsed in the bathroom of the Palm Beach Hotel. To spare the dirty detail's , after major intestinal infection , unstable 48 hours, several passing out's and ...

Today, Pierre came to pick us up at 7:30 as planned. We drove into the center of Lomé and I changed some money on the street. The hotel was offering 385 CFA Francs for a dollar. At the bank at the airport I had gotten 400/dollar, changing just enough for our visas. But on the street, after some negotiation with a moneychanger named David, but wh...

Another full day. Kossi Fiaboé arrived at the hotel at 8:30 this morning and we drove through the mostly empty streets (it's Sunday). All the men were present on my arrival, so I set up my laptop and microphone so I can record the sessions. We will make CDs tomorrow with all the seminar sessions on them, so the men can review and consult them la...

Today was a busy day. In the morning I put the finishing touches on two Bible Studies I would be giving, one today and one tomorrow morning. The first was on the subject of setting priorities, the other on principles of wisdom and discernment. Mid-morning I took a taxi around town to buy notebooks and to make photocopies for the seminars that w...

Helloo!! Have had a very exciting week and have finally assimilated into Togolese culture, I say this because when I said "I'm going to take a week off and go travelling" I managed to procrastinate so effectively that I never left Togo!! instead I visited lot of other NGO's (Non-Governmental Organisation's / aid organisations) That was quite coo...