Danone to Man - Cote d'Ivoire The following day was always going to be a mixed bag. Down as a trip highlight, we were off to stay in a village that performs a dance ceremony featuring people on stilts. We arrived in the village around 3.30pm. I say village, but it was more like arriving …
Danone to Mann - Cote d'Ivoire I was going to start by complimenting how wonderfully welcoming the people of Cote d’Ivoire are, but then I remembered how miserable the immigration officer was. It took some time to get out of Guinea and even more time to get through the Cote d’Ivoire side despite us being …
Bossou - Guinea Sat on a wooden bench under the shade of a dusty rural immigration control building I watched on as a chicken nonchalantly ambled inside to mingle with the Liberian immigration officers as they casually processed us out of the country. We were about to head into Guinea, a country I was very …
Robertsport to Nimba - Liberia The Ivory Coast visa situation really was quite the situation. We couldn’t bypass it on our way to Ghana as that would mean driving into Mali and Burkina Faso which, would be an incredible adventure apart from the significantly increased risk of being kidnapped by extremists. We couldn’t go back …
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 …
