But that'll do for now.
Done with the photos
That's it for the photo-a-day. There were many more obviously. Dublin clearly had much more to see than just signs on walls. London included the requisite photos in a bright red phone booth, in front of Big Ben, Tower Bridge, etc. Sierra Leone was bigger than photos can show.
Photo: More street art
Photo: Dublin
The last stop on my trip home was Dublin. I really loved the city and the countryside that I got to see. This was on an unassuming wall in a quiet part of the city.
Photo: Art
Photo: Stadium apartements
I saw friends Kim and Rob in London. They live in an apartment at the old Arsenal soccer stadium. The apartments are literally built into the old stands. So cool. The slope of the old stands can be seen in the picture. There's red trim because that's the team's color. The new (amazing) stadium is down the street.
Photo: Railway memorial
Photo: A French town hall
I had a couple days in France with friends Danielle and Michel. Here's the hotel de ville of Pierrefonds, too quaint not to get a photo. We checked out the beautiful fairytale-like castle the town is known for. Apparently Michael Jackson wanted to buy it at some point (the castle).
Photo: Ads in Brussels
After Africa, I had a few days in Europe. Here are two ads from a very brief stopover in Brussels. They both feature the Manneken Pis, a tourist attraction in Brussels that's a statue of a little boy peeing. Dumb and cute, but no big deal. But it strikes me as bizarre that Coke has decided to associated the peeing boy with it's beverages by using it on the front of a Coke machine and in a Vitamin Water ad (one of its brands).
Doesn't make me want a drink.
Photo: Stop in Dakar
I think that's it for photos from SL. Here are a few photos from my long trip back to the states.
The flight out of Africa included an unexpected layover in Dakar when the plane had technical problems. The upside was that I had a day in Dakar and briefly got to check out the city. This is a recently completed statue (some would say boondoggle) that the president of Senegal commissioned. It was built by a North Korean company, perhaps because they have experience with massive bronze statues...
Photo: Stove
This is the stove used to prepare dinner each night at the home where I lived. It's made from two metal pails lined with clay. Meals were generally rice with a stew. Everything was made on this one stove, which was fed with wood charcoal. The plastic bucket on the right has the greens (cassava leaves on this day) that will be cooked.
Photo: Treats
Photo: Connaught Hospital
Photo: Imports
Rice is a staple in local cooking. It's eaten at every meal and was once grown in huge quantities in the provinces. Somehow the industry collapsed in the past thirty years and now it's imported from India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Here are 100 pound bags. Multiple times I saw a mama carrying a baby on her back and one of these balanced on her head.
Photo: More smoke
Photo: Sleepy town
Photo: Cloth market
Photo: I'm on a boat
Photo: My room
Photo: Goods for sale
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