listen to africa

Slowly making our way along the River Gambia – green, humid & full of life. On a dirt rd – tarmac ended just past the President’s village…

Another day in The Gambia, another hostel-that’s-really-a-brothel. (We’re on the move again, heading upriver to E. Gambia.)

Odd feeling: still no internet, radio signal’s been dead for 2 days, & no free press in Gambia. I do hope the world’s OK :)

Site updates coming when we find internet (rumour is that it’s been down in Gambia for days, but can’t get online to check if that’s true :)

Saw an expat shop (Gambia) and went in ‘for a look’. Cheese! Bacon! The Economist! 1 weeks’ budget in 1 hr! (Have we become expats already?)

On a ferry, crossing the Gambia River, which we’ll soon be following into inland Gambia. First, a few days nr Banjul, visa sorting.

First taste of The Gambia: in the bar of our motel-that’s-really-a-brothel talking to a schoolboy and a policeman about education.

A brilliant windy, rainy day into The Gambia – country no 7 of our trip. Very odd to be speaking English again after 7 months (!) of French.

Going for nine days of back-to-back cycling, albeit short days, to get our fitness back. We’re seven days in now, and feeling it…

More rural Senegalese roads today, cycling past millet and peanut harvesting in full swing. Now in Kaolack, two days from the Gambia.