Stephanie Winnard

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April 29th 2011

Before we left England we did some research on what we wanted to do whilst in Sierra Leone, but nothing was booked and we were a little apprehensive about what we were going to do. Susan offered us a chance to go to the home village of Musa with the three volunteers that were staying at AWF, to do a reccy for a possible satellite centre and to look for evidence of chimps and crocodiles. We deliberated for a little while, as the three night trip would eat into our time, but decided to go for it, as it was not a place we could ever visit as tourists. The journey to get there was pretty epic in itself! A taxi ride, then a 6 hour Poda poda ride (African minibus with wooden benches inside- usually ... read more



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April 27th 2011

We weren't planning on going to Sierra Leone, in fact we weren't planning on going on any holiday. A HUGE stroke of good luck on my boyfriend Lukes part, meant that we suddenly had tickets to anywhere on the BMI network for free!! I know, I didn't believe it myself at first. So the plan was to go somewhere as far away as possible, cheap (as this wasn't a planned holiday, and so the budget was very tight), and somewhere that we would never have gone without the free flights. Looking through the destination list Sierra Leone jumped out at me. It certainly ticked all of the above boxes, but the response I got from Luke when I suggested it was not positive. I think his exact words were "Are you having a laugh, isn't that ... read more






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