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
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