Tuesday 26 November 2013

24.11.13 Sunday. Travelling again




Up early to find Faith and Mike already outside with coffee.  Faith is feeling much better and wanted to go, so we loaded the truck and went to collect Jean from her hotel.  Off onto the road to Brikama where we started to look for a hole punch as Mike had been unable to get one yesterday.  We tried many shops with no luck, most people didn’t even know what it was.  The cloudy weather seems to be over now, and we had to cover arms on the sunny side of the truck to stop burning.  We continued on to Soma where we found a long queue of trucks, but not many cars and so we were able to cross to Farafenni quite quickly.  We had more shopping to do in Farafenni; Mike and Faith are staying with families for the next two weeks and wanted to contribute food to the family budget.  I met Alagie, who has supplied cement to us in the past and he suggested that for the elusive hole punch I borrowed one from the Post Office.  Being Sunday, this was closed, but the security man kindly lent me a hole punch on the promise of returning it tomorrow.  We got all required items and went to a café for lunch, our usual café had been closed last week, but on seeing us the proprietress sent a message with one of the local guys to tell us that everything was back to normal and she expected us back tomorrow as ‘her customers’  We finally set off for Jamwelly, arriving around 5pm in the afternoon.  Faith and Mike went off to inspect their lodgings whilst we unloaded the truck into one of the classrooms.  Unfortunately the suggested lodgings had no toilet facilities, the family wander into the bush when they need to go.  Faith didn't fancy that idea and so it was agreed that they stay in the school, sleeping in the office for the week.  We all set up camp for the night, showered (bucket and ladle) and sat down to wait for dinner, and wait and wait, we had just about given up when Channeh arrived with the promised chicken dinner, just after 9pm.  Dinner and then straight to bed. 

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