Our friend Joe's (who was with us on the fateful broken leg trip to Epe) family were over during half term. (lots of men come but wives and children stay home). And I suggested that I take them to the markets (Of course I am such an expert 9 weeks in Lagos!!))so we went to Balogun market - one of the biggest and busiest. OMG after wandering through alleys and down incredibly crowded traffic strewn streets, and all we saw was lace (I kid you not millions of amazing lace and broderie anglais stalls and that is all they sold) we gave up. The teenagers had definitely had enough lace and when we walked through the livestock section they were shocked.
We found our way back to the central mosque and de-bunked to Lekki craft market much smaller and more variety. However you could buy anything at Balogan including live chickens and dubious bush meat.
At Lekki, I was surprised by the number of stalls selling civet cat and other spotted furry skins- not too sure what they were.Also the huge number of crocodile skins and stuffed animals and tortoise etc also ivory (but it may have been shaped bone pretending to be ivory)
I bought amazing insulated tiffin tins. These big stainless steel containers have three separate pans inside for you to carry different dishes around.Can either be hot food or cold as it is insulated.
We are going on a sailing trip into the Bight of Benin on Sunday so will try out the Tiffin tin.
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