Some of the things we have done have been really interesting! We are now members of the yacht club and have started sailing little catamarans called Hobies. Great fun so when we were back in the UK we have bought floatation devices etc. I must admit though we only joined the yacht club for the social aspect and for the trips each Sunday to a lovely little beach.
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| water coming out of the wrong pipe |
For those of you who know me, you know I don't "rough it", so these photos of the trip we took to Osogbo will really make you laugh. We went up to a World Heritage Site - sacred to the Yoruba people and stayed in a well known artists "guest house" OMG . At least the sheets were clean - that is all I will say. The shower photos show my naive expectation that hot water would come out of the shower head - there was after all a hot water tank on the wall plugged into the electrical supply. NO the water came out of the corroded pipes all over the electrical wires! After that we had cold showers. well the water is never really cold just luke warm. And that was one of the first things we did on coming home to the UK, took a huge drink of cold tap water- until you can't do that you don't realise how much you will miss it.
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| the guest house |
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| the gardens at the guest house were lovely |
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| these girls are 8 and 9 |
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| the electrics were - challenging |
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| this bridge was made by a Welsh Engineer and the duplicate of it is in Herefordshire!!! |
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| the monkeys were everywhere- hunting is banned |
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| In the Sacred Groves |
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| changing a tyre miles from anywhere |
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| the upstairs was added later and you can't get from the ground floor to the 1st floor except by going outside. |
Back to Osogbo, we went with fantastic friends who have lived in Nigeria for over 30 years and who know everything, but the car had 4 flat tyres over the weekend and the air conditioning broke down. Still Carl can now change a Toyota tyre incredibly quickly.
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