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Everywhere where you look , you see red in Freetown today! There’s something about celebrating

Valentine’s Day in Freetown that makes it interesting. People acutally go out of their way to wear red - red top, red band, red ribbon, red flower bands etc… somehow I never noticed it last year.

This year however, after church and a little rest we decided to head for town to see what was happening. Apart from romantic dinners in top restaurants, lovey-dovey couples were on the beautiful beaches of Freetown especially, Lumley, every nook and crany was filled with lovebirds.  Others were swimming, playing beach volley ball, football what have you.
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So how do we move about here in Sierra Leone? Bear in mind that the terrain here is mountainous. This is just to enlighten you just in case you’re coming for good and want to buy a car.

I’ll talk about private car first:

The best mode of transport here is a 4×4 simply because of the mountainous terrain and the bad roads. Other cars will do, but they’ll struggle to get to some places. I’ve seen that only non 4×4 that can weather things better here is the Mercedes.
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Have you ever taken a taxi in Sierra Leone? If so then you’ll probably understand this incident that happened to me about two weeks ago, Nov 19th to be precise. We had taken the car to the garage and as usual, it was there for 4 days and it came back much worse than it went in.

Anyway, on the first day that it went, I decided to take a taxi to pick the children from school. This taxi was brought to me that truly looked like it was going to fall apart sooner than later.
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Yep! Lagoonda re-opened last weekend amidst a lot of glitz and aplomb! I had to be there to see for myself:D I had heard so much of it but had never been there as it’s been closed since we’ve been here.

I must say, everything was well laid-out and the cocktail was delicious with plenty of food to go round. The Minister of Tourism was there and gave his speech encouraging the entertainment industry.

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I thought I should post this information for the benefit of those coming this December, or visiting at any other time.

Here are some of the places I hang out - list according to my most preferred
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