Goodbye to Sierra Leone, for now

Wow, that escalated quickly!  When we moved to Salone we had always planned a 10 day trip back to the UK in mid-March, mainly so Elsie could get her all-important 1 year immunisations from Western docs. As we got in to the first week of March and the coronavirus story started developing we began to …

Full Time Dad’ing. In Sierra Leone.

If You’re Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands Over a month into my new job and I’m pretty sure Elsie is loving her Daddy Day Care. I definitely am. I must admit that not having a ‘proper’ paid job is quite nice, for now, but Full Time Dad’ing is tough work. It’s mentally …

Bo – Setup Complete

We’ve been in Bo for 3 weeks and it feels like we’ve settled in nicely now. Last week was a big week on the setting up / admin front. We managed to sort a vehicle, get our visas extended & get multi-entry visas, took delivery of our shipment which we organised back in December, and …

The Sierra Leone Adventure Begins

Packing Up After a manic few days and late nights packing up our flat in London we managed to get ourselves and a van ram-packed back to Rhos on Friday 17th Jan. It's strange packing your life in to a van - we thought we were quite light on "stuff" but it turns out we …

Sierra Leone 2020

It's been brewing in my head for a couple of years by now - a yearning for the next chapter to start, but I wasn't sure what it was or how it looked. Our favourite TV show had become Ben Fogle's New Lives In The Wild and Friday evenings sat on the sofa binge watching …