Day three in the Gambia 2019

This is the third of our traditional fake posts from the Gambia day by day during the trip. They are fake in that I am writing them before we go, but they should give you a sense of what we have been up to each day and will be posted each day at six. If we…

Day Two in the Gambia 2019

This is the second of our traditional fake posts from the Gambia day by day during the trip. They are fake in that I am writing them before we go, but they should give you a sense of what we have been up to each day and will be posted each day at six. If…

Day One in the Gambia 2019

  This is the first of our traditional fake posts from the Gambia day by day during the trip. They are fake in that I am writing them before we go, but they should give you a sense of what we have been up to each day and will be posted each day at six….

Day by day on the 2019 trip

We are heading out to the Gambia on Friday and as normal have little idea of whether we will be able to update this blog live while we are there- there is rarely much wifi availability. So, as for the last few years, I have written a set of fake live posts before we travel…

First world problems

Today I spent an unhappy couple of hours first buying a ridiculously large Christmas tree and then struggling to get it into my car, dragging it into my house and then realising the trunk of it was too large to fit into my Christmas tree holder. Life doesn’t get much worse than that! Meanwhile yesterday,…

What is going on in Dumbutu?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over these posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will include some…

What is going on in Jiroff?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…

What is going on in Geniere?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…

What is going on in Kolior?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action.  Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…

What is going on in Bambako?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…

What is going on in Bumari?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…

What is going on in Nema Kuta?

Preparations are well under way for our next visit to the Gambia in December and this blog is now stirring back into action. Over the next few posts I will be giving our students a chance to understand a bit more about the villages they will be visiting in a few weeks’ time. I will…