Three days in Pointe-Noire

The mornings in town were rather lazy. I was going out across the street to have a baguette with an avocado salad and a cup of nescafe. Sueco where I stayed also did food but it was expensive. I once took a seafish bullion with vegetables, it was nice but if was also 3500cfa. Oops. […]

Samedi à Bamako

I woke up very early after the musical night: 9am and it was the heat that woke me up. On the car from Mamou to Kankan when someone asked me how I find Guinea and I said it’s hot they told me that the real hotness I will experience in Bamako. It’s not really hotter […]

Kankan to Bamako: it’s in the music

At 7am, the water lake across the hotel gate was back, I walked out to find transport to Bamako. The gare voiture, more of a damp space between more shacks, was busy. Walking distance from the hotel but I nevertheless took a moto for 3000gnf in order not to waste time finding the place. Also, […]

Varela: ngoni music

Yes, I’m still in Varela. I didn’t plan to be still in Varela. I woke up early-ish, at 7am, when the sun rises. Plan was to get to Bissau during the day. I assumed I would catch one of the toca toca that are coming here from São Domingos. I mean I was on one […]

Visa no. 5: Guinea-Bissau in Ziguinchor

A day in Ziguinchor was spent lazily, like a sort of “me day”. There is a Guinea-Bissau consulate in town that gives visas without hassle. I went there. But things first things: coffee. My Rough Guide to Senegal mentions a bakery Ble d’Or and says they do espresso. It’s right in the centre of town […]

From Nouakchott via Otherworld to Senegal

Many years ago I read a book called “Otherworld” by Tad Williams. I picked it up at an airport and I got hooked. It is a four-volume long novel that takes place mainly online in a system that’s used to take over the world. Towards the end of the novel action takes place in the […]