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Musings: Animals on the road
Throughout Africa I have been dodging wild and domestic animals wandering on the road. Each of these animals has a different character and needs to be approached and passed accordingly.
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Day 68: A great day but a worrying one
Why great? Well just look at the pictures of the road and scenery. New tarmac one minute, jungle tracks the next, then dirt roads. All through some of the most stunning unspolit mountain jungle. Why worrying? Because…
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Day 67: A wonderful place to ride a bike
I have spent the day riding on some of the best biking roads in the world (if you forget about the pot holes). The Guinea mountains are stuning amd mostly unspoilt.
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Day 66: On my way home
Yesterdays visit to the Sierra Leone Scouts was the last meeting I had planned for this trip. I will spend the next 3-4 weeks travelling home. I had a slightly later start this morning and after a half hour fighting through traffic amd markets I was back into…
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Day 65: Sierra Leone Scouts
My plan was to leave Makeni early to get to Freetown by midday. I had been told about a great camping spot on the beach. Just as I was about to leave the heavens opened and it was pouring with rain. It eased after a while so I…
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Day 64: After Ebola
My third day of visiting Street Child projects was to a village south of Makeni. I have done a seperate blog for that. In the evening Rashinda, Alfred (both work for Street Child) and I went out for a meal with some people who work for the International…