A Few Pictures

Hi all, I don't have much time to actually write much but I wanted to get a few pictures up while Im in Lome doing some work...

My birthday was a few days ago and I naturally went out to one of the better restaurants in a large town near me--I was told that the fish was good at this particular French restaurant, and decided to ask the waiter for it. Generally speaking, though, any restaurant in country will allow you to inspect the menu for quite some time before telling you they don't actually have half the things on it. With this in mind I wasnt too disheartened when he said there was no fish, though the waiter did say that there was a special delicacy on the menu tonight: Agouti, or in English: bush rat. Its really dosent look like a rat, for the record, more like a woodchuck or something--and Ive been dying to have it but havent found it in village, so I jumped on the oppurtunity.

It was, admitedly, just as delicious as the people in my village said it was. The texture of tender beef but taste sort of like pork, with none of the iron like taste of game meat back home.

All in all, one of the best birthday meals Ive ever had...

The main course

Before the feast

And just so everyone can get a better idea of what I'm talking about, here is a link to a national geographic video about Togolese bush rat hunters: enjoy!

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/togo/togo_eatingrat.htmlhttp://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/togo/togo_eatingrat.html

Just a picture from the beach in Ghana during my vacation

A random shot that I like...

Take care!

J