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30 March 2023

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Seven of us, out of the group of twelve paying passengers, leave for the ten minutes’ drive to the border. Where our visa saga, already a subject of this diary before, continues. The Benin and Togo border officials share an office, to encourage efficiency, no doubt. First we have to get out of Benin. A [...]
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7 March 2023

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Note: It is not that we have been kidnapped that I have not been posting (thanks for asking), today is the first day we are having internet again, after Ndjamena. So the reporting is a little behind. Whivch will only get worse…. We got our Cameroonian visa yesterday, within a day. Apparently the Embassy in [...]
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14 Feb. 2023

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Our alternative plan, flying into Benin, means that we have to arrange a visa for Benin in advance. With the group, we would have obtained our visa on the way, maybe at the border, or in some other way, not yet specified, but now we are on our own. So I brace myself again, for [...]
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10 Feb. 2023

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The visa saga continues. A week after our joint application submission to the Ghanese embassy, part online and part a whole stack of documents in support of our visas, Sofia gets a message that her application had been unlocked again. Would this be suggesting that she should edit one or more fields online, perhaps? And [...]
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26 Jan. 2023

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Hmmm, ‘hitch-free’ not exactly (remember, OIS states on their website that they strive ‘to expedite hitch-free travel from the Netherlands to Nigeria’, see 21 Jan.). When we came to pay for the visas, we were told by OIS staff that, for the time being, the Nigerian Embassy in The Hague has decided not to issues [...]
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21 Jan. 2023

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We got nr. 2 – Liberia. Sofia went to Brussels, by train, to collect the visas. A good exercise in developing patience, which we no doubt will need during our expedition. Did I tell you already that we now refer not to our trip, anymore, but ‘the expedition’? Seems more appropriate. And so was Sofia’s [...]
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12 Jan. 2023

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Visa nr 1 – Chad – in the pocket, or rather, in the passport, visa nr 2 – Liberia – in progress. Despite each and every embassy website stating that visas cannot be paid for in cash, the lady at the Liberian embassy had no problem accepting our money in bank notes, except that she [...]
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10 Jan. 2023

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We have done some visa research. First the good news: our self-inflicted extension of the trip, through The Gambia and Senegal, does not require visas for EU citizens. Generous, or would this be a recognition that most Senegalese who travel to the EU do that without a visa, too? Bad joke, sorry. For the ‘transit [...]
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03. the visas

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You don't just go to the Stans, no, you need major advance preparation to collect all the necessary visas and permits; but, we managed!
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