Monday, November 06, 2006

The long dark road

So we left Ghana and travelled onto Lome, Togo. It's actually more impoverished in this country if that's even possible. It was absolute mayhem at the border, trying to get out of the car while everyone was rushing up trying to sell us their wares (a toque??) or carry our luggage. We made it to Chez Leon, dropped our bags and went out for dinner. Great Lebanese food. We all decided to partake in smoking a Huka which was interesting, while eating dinner and having some beer. We met a few of K's friends and had a good evening. The next day we went to meet the tailor who was to make our African Lady Dresses. He was amazing and went with us to the market to purchase more material, we all loved him. Jennifer made a new friend we dubbed the "market lover" and sang a song "Jennifer, where are you, Jennifer, come back soon" when she went to a few stores as he waited for her to return. Dan and i witnessed this and i have Dan on video reinacting the song, it was ridiculous, i was crying i was laughing so hard. We then went to a Fetish market which was quite shocking especially to me as i do not eat meat. Seeing tables and tables full of dead animals, heads, an elephants foot, a hippo skull.It turned my stomach. I"m getting kicked out of here, i will tell more later.

We spent that evening with more

5 comments:

Scott said...

Waiting to hear more.

Scott

yrautca said...

Is it just me or did Mrs Ash really got more eloquent since she went to Africa. Good work Ash.

Anonymous said...

a "fetish" market?

rawbean said...

Sounds incredible! I can't believe you guys are there.

That market sounds horrible though.

Anonymous said...

How did the eating go miss "veggies only?" I can't imagine!