Why ask if Guinea-Bissau is safe to visit? Here’s why. Check out images of Guinea-Bissau’s beaches, and you’ll be booking flights. Read up on its recent political history, and you’ll probably be rushing to cancel them. But for the hardened or adventurous traveller (you do need to fall into one… Continue reading
So here’s the tale of a day which I won’t forget, and don’t want to remember, though words can’t convey the true exasperation… It begins normally, travelling by transporte misto (minibus/converted van) with ‘USA vegetable oil vitamin A fortified’ tins used as additional central seating with a young guy who… Continue reading
Oddity of oddities former Portuguese colony Guinea-Bissau leans towards French as well as Portuguese and Croele for language, and is a member state of the West African Franc. Bissau city, the capital, is the best I can do coast-wise for a while. I manage to find myself a large ring… Continue reading
Its a quick romp back to the transport hub that to me is Brikama town, to catch a sept-place down to the true border town of Seleni, then a minibus to the village of Kafountine, back on the Atlantic. All by lunchtime. There is a complete absence of tar from… Continue reading
