My stay in the safari Garden hotel was a real treat looking back. VSO really eased us into life in The Gambia by letting us stay there. The guys that work there are really friendly and the food was very good. I had difficulty sleeping but only because I kept being woken in the night by the sound of coconuts falling on the roof and rolling down and then dropping on the floor. Now I've moved house it is the sound of the people at the local mosque that wakes me up a...

Well I finally made it to The Gambia after missing my original flight scheduled for Thursday. The traffic on the M25 was horrendous and we simply hadn't left ourselves enough time to get there. I was cool as a cucumber as I phoned the travel office to let them know I had missed the final check-in time and would need to re-book a ticket. Luckily VSO are a fantastic organisation; they issued me another ticket for Saturday and told me not to worry about it. Still, ...