So... I`m back in Togo. Me and Benin really didn`t get along. From enhaling lungfulls of cancer giving fumes to my hotel room which was about 90 degrees at night... Yesterday I zemi jonged it the immigration place where I stood in line for about an hour before getting to the front. I was then given a form and told to fill it out. Returning to the back of the line I waited another hour or so to get to the front where I was then told to come back in the afternoon....

Mmmm pain au chocolat - the best way to start the day. Its like a croissant - but even more unhealthy!! So far Togo is really cool, it feels like France and Africa have merged to create a french speaking, african looking and french/african tasting country. Yesterday I spent over an hour trying to find the post office, i think my sense of direction has gotten worse (is that possible) since leaving NZ! I then spent a loooooooooong time at the post office waiting f...

Bonjour! I have arrived in Togo. Already I have found out; I can speak pretty much no French, keyboards here have been seriously rearranged and motorbike taxis don`t stop for pedestrians. Crossed the border at lunchtime after a tro tro ride along perhaps the worst road in the world! Lugged my pack, which is going to be somehow lightened this afternoon, from the Ghana building about 500 metres to the Togo one. A new stamp in my passport - how exiting. Had avocad...