Stet

First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Stranded on Tin Can Island

Our household goods and car are enjoying their last night on Tin Can Island, a tropical paradise for 40-foot containers off the coast of Lagos.

Our goods should have arrived in Rotterdam last week, but as a result of congestion at the port, they had a bonus ten days of cocktails and afrobeat on Tin Can

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Leaving this place

I’m not profligate with my categories (nor with my posts). So when I see that I have 22 posts in the category “Leaving this place”, I know that I’ve been leaving more than I’ve been staying these last few years.

And on a night like this, at 1:13 am, with the cold Harmattan wind whipping through the

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Dave

January 18, 2009 at 9:20 am · Reply

All that is well and nice, but you never mentioned *whence* you are moving (or did I miss it)? That would be a way to alleviate the repetitiveness: replace your “Leaving this place” by “Moving to this place” :-)
Tim

January 18, 2009 at 12:11 pm · Reply

Keep still, will you? I can’t keep up.
And what Dave said – wherever next?

I feel like Donald Trump

My cellphone runs flat each day. The battery is fine; it wears out because I spend most of my waking hours with the phone pressed close to my ear. Callers always seem to be surrounded by fighting couples with screaming children, stuck in heavy traffic outside a mosque with a new 5000W PA from the Saudis

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The winter evening settles down | Stet

December 11, 2009 at 2:29 pm · Reply

[...] it appeared that we should have sold even more stuff on the lively second-hand market in Dakar (previously on Stet …), but as we threw out the excess packing paper and consolidated half-filled boxes, we relaxed a [...]

Not Cuba

Just finished Skypeing with a prospective landlady ahead of our move in four days. It wasn’t the most coherent of conversations as she kept breaking off and shouting in W_____ (local language) at the noisy mob of women surrounding her. She ended every phrase with, “Inch’allah!” — not sure if this is a positive sign.

She told

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Jim

February 27, 2008 at 2:05 am · Reply

enjoy senegal
keep us posted
Dave

February 27, 2008 at 3:48 am · Reply

Bah, the ‘W’ is quite a giveaway ;-)
Not many languages that would fit the bill, apart from Wolof…
Have fun in Dakar!
Mathieu

March 2, 2008 at 2:59 pm · Reply

Googling ‘Grand Magal’ seems to indicate Senegal is the likely answer. :-)

Do we get pictures?
Ria

March 17, 2008 at 6:40 am · Reply

Thanks!

Yes you will get photos, once I get an internet connection, a place to live, kids in school, car, etc.

On the road again, again

Diptheria, tetanus & polio booster? — check!
Hepatitus A & B? — check!
Meningitis ACWY? — check!
Rabies I, II & III? — check!
Typhus fever? — check!
Mantoux test? — check!
TB — check!
Yellow fever? — check!
Malaria tablets? — check!

We feel like a family of pincushions after all the vaccinations we’ve had these last few weeks.

No, we’re not staying in the

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3 comments to On the road again, again

Stunner

February 23, 2008 at 1:41 pm · Reply

Another adventure, how cool!
Zonasedna

February 24, 2008 at 2:46 pm · Reply

india?!

ZS
Ria

February 26, 2008 at 3:55 am · Reply

Try another continent.

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