Entries from March 2008

March 17, 2008

A little diversion

A couple of nights in Franceville gave us time to get a few jobs done, a blog update, an overdue bike wash and a few other glamorous traveller tasks. Originally we had planned to go straight across the Congo border from Franceville, but at the last minute we decided to have one last night in [...]

March 8, 2008

Escape from Yaoundé

On Monday, the day before we had planned to leave, we received a slightly worrying SMS from Julien, our Canadian friend, who was in Douala, the other big city in Cameroon. We were planning to meet him in Kribi, but he explained that Douala was at a standstill, no taxis, no buses, no traffic, so [...]