Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Cote D'Ivoire has risen to the occasion by men on the streets peddling red roses made out of lacy knickers. Dave has failed to cut the mustard and us 3 girls are without so much as a chocolate between us. Christmas is still going strong here too with Christmas trees everywhere - one in the hotel in Abidjan, Marissa knocked one flying in a cafe and one laden down with tinsel where I come to get wifi. I thought this was a bit odd un...

Day one led to a double christening of Kaye and I - people here are named after the day of the week they're born. Luckily to make things less complicated we are both Wednesday born and so christened Amina 1 and Amina 2. Armed with our new names and some hot chilli sauce on breakfast eggs, we headed to the market via the museum. We lea that not all plastic comes from China but as luck would have it there was plenty of cheap Chinese tat to keep me happy. Ladies w...