Journeys

We left Pèdè last Sunday morning and drove to Parakou. We spent two nights there so that we could have our "End of Term" appointment with our Personnel Coordinator (and friend, Lee) and so that Marc could meet up with a mechanic to talk about getting our car properly fixed at last while we're away.

Tuesday we had a taxi drive us down to Cotonou. Unfortunately the A/C wasn't working, but otherwise all went smoothly. We saw the usual aftermath of accidents like this one on the way into Cotonou, with the lorry blocking 3 of 4 lanes:

As always we wonder how on earth they managed to end up like that!

We then had one and a half nights in Cotonou, getting up in the middle of the second night to be at the airport by 3:35am. We then flew to Morocco, where our airline paid for a hotel for 24 hours because they'd changed our flight times (fortunately ahead of time so we knew it was going to happen).

Enjoying the hotel ... and watching "Casablanca" in Casablanca!

We finally arrived in Manchester yesterday (Good Friday) afternoon, and were very happy to at last get to my mum and dad's. It's a treat to be able to celebrate Easter here.