Monrovia - Liberia Liberia is a tricky customer. Crossing from Sierra Leone, the atmosphere almost instantly changes, a little as if I was having a jolly nice dinner with my Argentine relatives and then blurting out that Jude Bellingham is in fact already a far better footballer than Lionel Messi could ever hope to be …
Bo & Tiwi Island – Sierra Leone Since my first walkabout in Freetown I had begun to feel something uncomfortable in the sole of my flipflop, but being a man it took me a few days to investigate the problem and I had merely shrugged it off as a stone. It turns out emergency surgery …
Freetown - Sierra Leone Refreshed after a full night sleep, our second day in the capital started with the whole group jumping into a hired school bus that drove us to the Liberian embassy to apply for visas. Half the group were still coming to terms with the previous five weeks, missing others that had …
Freetown - Sierra Leone Strap yourselves in! Every now and then in life there is a moment that feels defining and sat in Malmesbury’s Summer Café with Rut the day before I was flying to Freetown, Sierra Leone - and her to Auckland, New Zealand - felt like one such moment. One week ago, Freetown …
Dhigurah island - Maldives After three nights on Dhangethi we hopped over to Dhigurah island that appeared more orientated towards tourists including a little more lapse on the no bikini role for whatever reason that may have been. The weather remained changeable with black skies omnipresent throughout the week, always threatening rain and regularly acting …
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