The waiting continues. Meanwhile, we are fascinated by the movement and number of ships in a holding pattern, waiting to dock. With over 30 ships visible along our part of the coast and countless others further to our west, and out of sight, it’s fascinating to see MSC owned ships…
This morning we were woken by strong wind, thunder and rain. After showering and breakfasting in Poki, I couldn’t open our hotel room door to get back into our room. It’s a rusty old key and Dennis has already applied CRC to the lock a couple of times. Dennis couldn’t…
100 days. Seems like a life sentence..:) First Happy Birthday to Kelvin’s Jen, currently touring Tasmania. We each have a Jen. They are mostly very good things to have….:) So what did we do today! Not spend a second advancing our tan’s on the beach. Today we needed to renew…
We seem to be establishing a routine. As we go to bed early, we wake early too. Often around 5.30. We catch up with correspondence and read the news. Then a shower and porridge in Poki. This morning we were busy chasing the shipping companies for quotes and more information.…
It’s a bit like pulling teeth but we are making progress, albeit slow progress. I’m talking about shipping our vehicles. Today we received our first full quotation to ship from Lome to Walvis Bay in Namibia. We require a 40’ Hi Capacity container. I won’t divulge what the quoted price…
First thing this morning, Adam emailed the three shipping agents we had visited chasing them for information. I suppose it is a positive that they actually responded and said they were working on quotations and hoped to respond with an answer today or tomorrow. My concern is the timeframe. Our…
It’s nice to have the space of a bungalow. By the time we were ready to rise most of the washing, hanging around our bed, is dry enough to fold up. Not all it wasn’t the best sleeping. I must have been trying to adjust the aircon temperature but only…
At least it was a fine night and the tent was dry. As we couldn’t find an apartment close to the port area, we decided to move to the Coco Beach Hotel. We were also warned that the beach where we were camped was very busy with locals at the…
A hot sticky night, despite having the Caranex door open at the top to let air in. The storm last night was epic in sound and volume of water. I was very happy to be sitting on meters of sand and not have to worry about floating away. As Jen…
It was hard to leave the very comfy Onomo Hotel. We made pigs of ourselves at the breakfast buffet first though. We headed to the port area of Lome. Traffic was bad and once we turned off the main road, the side roads were awful. Deep puddles and mud, smelling…