BWG Christmas Luncheon

Written by julie on 13.12.2009 | Uncategorized

Singing for my lunch is not one of the things you ever want to hear, especially as I can’t carry a tune.  But in good faith that is what I did to celebrate Christmas Lunch with friends at the British Womens Group Christmas Luncheon.
The Luncheon was prepared by a Nigerian cook and served at [...]

A Bash at Bob’s Bar

Written by julie on 13.12.2009 | Uncategorized

Tale is Bob arrived several years ago to Lagos and turned the spare room into Bob’s Bar and went onto host quite a few famous gahterings.  Bob has since moved on but the Christmas tradition of a bash at Bob’s Bar is carried on.  This year’s party got started with a serving of burger and [...]

Gift Giving

Written by julie on 13.12.2009 | Uncategorized

During the holiday season one not only supports the local charities but the Awerican Women’s Club (AWC) also support the staff at the local charities by providing each staff member with a Christmas bag.  So we met and assembled 100 bags for 14 charities.  Our gift bag included airline toiletry bags, rice, beans, garri, tomato [...]

In Search of the Mountain Gorilla: Part 2 – The Gorillas

Written by julie on 13.12.2009 | Uncategorized

We arose to the mist rising from the rainforest in the morning sun as we had a lovely breakfast overlooking the valley.  We collected our day’s box lunches and traveled through the small local village of Bwindi to the entrance to the park, “The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest”, (which was only 500 meters away.)  Here, we [...]

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