Banking in Sierra Leone……. its like nothing else you have experienced! To withdraw money and get it changed into local currency is an all day affair! The actual bank is like a cattle market, and although there are lines to get to a teller, everybody just pushes to the front to get served first! The bank seems to make its…

Hiya Most of you who have followed the blog for a while will know that I’ve had a real challenge getting Frank up to speed. Any speed in fact as he wouldn’t start for ages! Once I got him going it was soon apparent that there were far more issues than we could have ever accounted for. On this journey…

Hiya, I recently had a trip to the provinces, I went to a village called Jujuma, (That’s correct phonetically). I have obviously spent many days and weeks in and around Freetown, but its not the entire country, and to be fair, probably isn’t even a good indicator of what the rest of the country is like. So, I decided to…

As I said in an earlier Blog, everything has cost more than we’d like. Having said that I have to make it a home for myself and for Katherine when she arrives. Also we have to have a usable office, so we need what we need. The house has now been decorated from top to bottom, just on the last…

The bane of my life at the moment. Polka is running ok at the moment apart from the sporadic EDC light issue. I have contacted the garage in the UK several times, but they have been unresponsive thus far. But she’s useable. Fixing her tow bar as it got damage in her first outing. Difficult to park in town, but…

How is it here you may ask? That’s a difficult question to answer. Ebola….. The cases reported fluctuate on a daily basis. My belief is that some restrictions were lifted too quickly whilst others probably did more harm than good. For instance, the road blocks you encountered are far fewer that they were previously. Having said that, there isn’t a…