For those of you who have been faithfully following this blog, you'll be pleased to hear we have more news on the price of fruit. In the Gambia you can buy 2-3 oranges for 1 English pound. In Sierra Leone you can get a ridiculous 30-65 oranges for the same amount of money.
Sierra Leone = 1
Gambia = 0
Ross now likes coconuts. You cannot get these in the Gambia. They do have watermelons. Not as good.
Sierra Leone = 2
Gambia = 0
Best restaurant of the trip, the confusingly named Senegalese African Restaurant (in Freetown). Yay spicy spicy chicken and fish and tasty tasty plantain. So good we braved 2 and a half hours of Freetown gridlock to get there on our last two days in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone = 3
Gambia = 0
Krio, maybe the best language ever. The pidgin english spoken in Sierra Leone.
How to ask, how are you?
Ow de bodee?
How to respond, I am fine.
De bodee fine.
How to sell boiled eggs.
Boilee, boilee, boilee...
How to sell water.
Aunt sally (!??)
How to sell sausage. Only to be used before 8am.
Rogue sausage.
How to say lots.
Buku.
How to say children.
Pikenas.
How to say us.
We.
How to say, can I have a discount?
Less me.
How to say 6000.
Six six thousand.
Sierra Leone = 4
Gambia = 0
We are now back in the Gambia. A relatively uneventful last few days in Freetown excepting the 24 hour delay of our flight. We luckily escaped sleeping on the airport floor thanks to the generosity of a girl named Kate who was also on the flight. We had no local currency left so she paid for us to stay in a hotel near by. I say hotel but it was more of a brothel. My favourite thing about the place was their attempt to charge us $60 for each room and then telling us we "can't compare this to Freetown, this is an international gateway". No, it's a brothel in the vicinity of the world's smallest national airport with only 8 flights a week going off the continent.
See you all soon.
Ross & Anneliese
