St Louis-Dakar-Cape VerdeTom Griffithurl='/Videos/3729.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3729.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Festa! Cape Verde, like most isolated micronations, is a pretty bloody weird place. It is not exactly a tourist mecca, lying out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and coming somewhere slightly above Burkina Faso in the,'Where the hell is that?' stakes. In fact, I'd barely heard of it until we saw it in the West Africa Lonely Planet and thought it might be a nice place to visit, if we ever had the time, the inclination, the money... which we realised we did have, once we met a friendly American couple at the Senegal-Mauritania border who had been to the archipelago, and raved about it. After leaving Saint Louis, we headed down the Senegal coast to Dakar, the chaotic a
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