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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

More photos

These are photos there were all taken when leaving the ferry to go the the airport to fly home

The airport is not only across the water from Freetown, it's about a 45min boat trip and is in an entirely different province to Freetown. You can also take the helicopter to get to the airport, but that costs about 50USD, whereas the ferry costs about 20USD or 12GBP (or at less if all you do is the actual ferry trip, but I got a bus which took me all the way from the centre of town, across the ferry and onto the airport, hence making life a lot easier for myself rather than having to find a taxi once I'd gotten onto the other side of the water). Since the flights I've taken to SL have always arrived late in the evening/at night, it's easier and safer to take the helicopter (and certainly a lot quicker, unless you get a storm which grounds the helicopter). However, since I was leaving Freetown in the afternoon I thought I'd try taking the ferry, which worked out really nicely and was very relaxing and chilled.

This first photo was taken while still on the ferry as we were moving towards the port- the sillouettes were foot passengers on the ferry.

More people leaving the ferry- having sold their goods in Freetown.

The welcome sign at the entrance to the airport, promoting love and peace in a country where until recently there didn't seem to be too much of either, but so far things have definitely been much more peaceful and positive.

Oops- just realised that these are a bit in the wrong order- this was just after the bus had come off the ferry. It's a bit like a RORO except for the fact that you drive on and reverse off- rather than opening at both ends. I think our driver had done this before tho' as be seemed pretty good at getting the bus on and off the ferry without touching any of the other vehicles. They did put the vehicles onto the ferry very tightly tho'- the door of our bus wouldn't open because it was so close to other cars. However, the windows were large sliding ones, so we could still get a lot of air (and clamber out if we needed/wanted to).