Had our early morning wake up call by the birds again, will have to find out what they are called and decided to visit the woodcarvers craft market at the town of Brikama which is also were the College is that Paul will be teaching at. Being very brave, we found ourselves in a gelleh gelleh “bush taxi”- a mini bus packed full with Gambians but with no set bus stops to get on or off just a general direction which is shouted out of the window by the fare collector. We travelled 30 miles through the farmed countryside past numerous roadside markets for the princely sum of 85p (five of us).

Dropped off in the centre of town at the market which was a mass of stalls with garish plastic sandals, cloth fabric and fly covered meat making the extremes. We did have a pleasant conversation with Fatima and her English husband Tony who have moved to Brikama with their children from London. Fatima was selling bric-a-brac on a stall all imported from the UK, and it wasn’t long before we received an invite of dinner with them and the chance for the children to play together, so she gave us her phone number so hopefully once sorted we will look to get in touch.

Brikama Market