It’s a bit like pulling teeth but we are making progress, albeit slow progress. I’m talking about shipping our vehicles. Today we received our first full quotation to ship from Lome to Walvis Bay in Namibia. We require a 40’ Hi Capacity container. I won’t divulge what the quoted price…
First thing this morning, Adam emailed the three shipping agents we had visited chasing them for information. I suppose it is a positive that they actually responded and said they were working on quotations and hoped to respond with an answer today or tomorrow. My concern is the timeframe. Our…
It’s nice to have the space of a bungalow. By the time we were ready to rise most of the washing, hanging around our bed, is dry enough to fold up. Not all it wasn’t the best sleeping. I must have been trying to adjust the aircon temperature but only…
At least it was a fine night and the tent was dry. As we couldn’t find an apartment close to the port area, we decided to move to the Coco Beach Hotel. We were also warned that the beach where we were camped was very busy with locals at the…
A hot sticky night, despite having the Caranex door open at the top to let air in. The storm last night was epic in sound and volume of water. I was very happy to be sitting on meters of sand and not have to worry about floating away. As Jen…
It was hard to leave the very comfy Onomo Hotel. We made pigs of ourselves at the breakfast buffet first though. We headed to the port area of Lome. Traffic was bad and once we turned off the main road, the side roads were awful. Deep puddles and mud, smelling…
While the power kept going off and our fan with it, I again slept the sleep. In the morning the rain came again. Cooling and soothing. It looks like the wet season is here now. It’s time to head to the city. After having some breakfast in the restaurant we…
Dennis had improved overnight and was well enough to drive a short distance. We decided we would head over the border into Togo and to the mountain town of Kpalime. Our bedding had been soaked in sweat, so before we left I washed our pillow cases and sleeping sheet and…
This is the perfect place for recuperation. Sun with shade but cool breezes keeping the temperatures down to a comfortable level. The bedding was again wringing wet this morning. Horrible. After a couple of hours I’m able to sit in one of our comfortable camp chairs outside Poki, for a…
Dennis is still unwell. We spent the day trying to relax a bit and catching up with the blog. It is difficult when several days have been missed and when things are so stressful. However, we seem to be getting back on track. In the middle of the afternoon the…