Pete and I spend are spending the first week in a hotel, Safari Gardens, which sports a swimming pool, showers, occasional hot water and great food. On Friday we move to the VSO house where we have to begin to fend for ourselves and haggle for the things we will need to take ‘up country’. We stay here for three more weeks during which time we have language and cultural training not to mention learning to ride motorbikes on the sand and dirt tracks laughingly called roads.
And then that’s it………move to Janjanbureh to our accommodation about which we know little, and to begin work about which we know even less.
At the moment we have a mobile each but the number will change when we move. We have no postal address, just a physical one, which is something like ‘opposite the mango tree’ and won’t be able to get one until we find the post office and rent a PO Box. Internet access is questionable although there are some wi fi café’s here, near the main city.
In the meantime comments on the blogs, e-mails and texts are wonderful to receive so keep ‘em coming please
Pete and Liz in The Gambia
E-mail: walfords@yahoo.com peterunner@googlemail.com
blog: www.peterunner.blogspot.com
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