Dawn – Walking over Khalaji Bridge
Image: Jason Florio 2009
Friday 6th November
Its 7am and we have been on the road for about an hour, up, packed, PG Tip’ed up and out of the Alkalo’s compound in Sanganjor by 6.15am sharp! It’was still dark but the prefect time to leave. The moon and the [...]
Thursday 5th November 2009
Images very soon!
We are now in Sanganjor. Its been a long, hot dusty road today (path for the course). We set off from Killy Village around 7am where we stayed overnight with the Alkalo, Sirrifo Collie, , and arrived here at dusk (around 6.00pm). Florio managed to set his Gambian trade-mark black [...]
Thank you so much to everyone so far who have made this expedition possible and for helping us spread the word about Gardens For Life. Now we are actually on the road, we need to pass over the fund raising to the Eden Project experienced charity organising team and they will ensure any further (much [...]
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
We eventually left Makasutu Culture Forest, near Kembujeh Village, at around 3pm on Monday 2nd November. We almost didn’t make it out at all because we found that when we went to pack the fallo serrato (donkey cart) the customization hadn’t been completed! We searched and searched for the drill [...]
http://www.justgiving.com/gardensforlifegambia
The above link is our new donations page for. We have done so well with the donations that we now need to hand the reins over to The Eden Project who will ensure that all further donations will go to The Gambia’s Gardens for Life schools. We are also on the road, well and truly. [...]
Monday 2nd Nov 09
Once we get the donkey cart fixed!!!!!
Check list:
2 x Brits – Florio & Jones (Expedition Leaders)
3 x Gambians – Janneh, Samba & Momadou (our Gambian team members who’s invaluable participation we couldn’t do without)
2 x Donkeys – Neil & Paddy (we definitely couldn’t do it without them either!)
1 x Donkey Cart (specially [...]
Sat 31st Nov 09
Its been a whirlwind of a week since we landed on Gambian terra firma a week ago. It feels as if we have been here for ages and we haven’t even started the expedition proper!
Thanks to James (English) and Lawrence (Williams), our good old mates here at Makasutu, we managed to borrow [...]
