We had a late lie in and then set off for the Wild Monkey
for Sunday Brunch. Kebba wanted to visit
his mother and we aimed to be back around 1pm
so he could go with Omar in the truck..
The Monkey, despite claims to be open 24 hours was closed, and so we
went to Cabanas and had Brunch near the beach.
We got back to the house and just as we arrived Ousman rang
to find out what time we would be arriving for lunch as it would be ready at 2pm!
Obviously some miscommunication here as we understood he was just going
to drop in this afternoon with some paperwork.
We had to delay Kebba’s departure and set off for Brikama,
where Ousman and his second wife have a compound in a village also called
Farato (same name as his home village in the provinces.) Ousman met us on the main road and then we
followed him back to his house as this was the first time we had visited and we
didn’t know the route. Most places here
do not have names on the streets and roads, and certainly no numbers on the
houses. There is no postal delivery
system, if you want post you have to rent a post office box in the nearest
town.
The house is nearly a mile from the main road and we
followed Ousman in the heat and the dust to the house, where we were met by
Agie, one of Ousmans’ daughters from his first wife, Agies’ sister and Awa,
daughter of Mr Sowe. Fortunately they
had some iced water for us as it was really hot by this time.
We went into the sitting room and I was given a local fan to
use whilst we waited for our second large meal of the day. We felt rather like the Vicar of Dibley as
Agie kept filling our plates despite our protests of having had enough. Eventually she believed us and having had our
fill of rice, noodles, beef and prawns, we were able to sit and relax a while
before taking our leave. We managed to
get back to the house in time for Kebba to still visit his mother, some 25
miles away, Omar drove him in our truck as they were taking some furniture for
her.
Another power cut this evening, so it was an early night for
all of us.
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