A few photos from the beach (plus one other)
Wahey- have managed to make it work!! 
This is Bouray beach-v beautiful and clean and sometimes has good enough waves for surfing on- tho' the recent ones have been more suited for beginners than anyone else.
These were all taken sometime ago since this is the first time I have managed to get a browser to work with blogger to get photos up.
And the beach from another direction- ah it's a tough life
More beach
Taken leaving the ferry on my way to the airport to head home- these were the first people off the boat, they were all heading home having sold their wares in the Freetown markets. Apparently they sell a lot of fish, fruit and vegetables at cheaper prices than you'd normally find in Freetown.
And finally, I took this ages ago- the same time I took the pics of the beach above; it's pics of the surfboards we rented when down at Bouray (still not sure of spelling!) beach and were beginning to attempt to learn to surf (tho' these boards were pretty short thus making it kind of tough).
Hopefully will manage to get some more photos on here now that have worked out a possible way of doing it!!
Labels: bouray, boure, photos, surfboards
Winter in Salone
Ok, another newsletter will hopefully soon be winging its way to people, so here’s just a brief update on what’s been happening. Basically life has been really interesting and also really busy, but has involved a lot of conferences and such like, keeping me away from my desk and really quite busy.
The weekends have been spent at the beach, I stood up on a surf board this Saturday, tho’ only very briefly and I’m still not sure if the board had managed to beach itself by the time I stood up- ah well, I can always practice again next time I go to the beach!
We have hit winter here- well, the beginning of the Harmattan (not sure on spelling), which is their idea of winter and means the air is a bit drier and we no longer have sudden deluges of water falling from the sky. It also means that anything that stays still for long enough gets a nice coating of red dust. I’ve been told there it will get dustier and visibility will decrease further (at the moment visibility's still fine) in January. I felt almost cold for the first time on Friday evening- we were sitting on the beach watching the sun go down (gorgeous colours but sunset happens very quickly compared to home) and there was a slight breeze that made you wish it wasn’t blowing, rather than the normal refreshment you feel when there’s movement in the air. Still, having a winter where the lowest temperature is about 23 degrees C is still slightly different to what I normally face in winter!!
We’ve managed to avoid most of the pre-Christmas trappings here- decorations in shops have only just been put up in the past week and I did see a (fake) Christmas tree being carried along the side of the road-ah well, I’ll soon hit the consumerism of the West, with the temperatures to match.
Labels: surfboards, weekend, winter
And the beach from another direction- ah it's a tough life
More beach
Taken leaving the ferry on my way to the airport to head home- these were the first people off the boat, they were all heading home having sold their wares in the Freetown markets. Apparently they sell a lot of fish, fruit and vegetables at cheaper prices than you'd normally find in Freetown.
And finally, I took this ages ago- the same time I took the pics of the beach above; it's pics of the surfboards we rented when down at Bouray (still not sure of spelling!) beach and were beginning to attempt to learn to surf (tho' these boards were pretty short thus making it kind of tough).
