For STA Explorer Adam, Cut to Africa, the trouble with Bissau hotels is that they were all full. His latest post discusses the necessity to be flexible while travelling. This necessity was realised when the groups’ plans for some island hopping were scuppered by having to wait for a boat for three days.

This left them with ten days to kill in Guinea-Bissau, so the pondering began first over some bissap (this is according to Adam a cooled hibiscus tea, bright purple and addictively refreshing), and then a more regular tea. As explained by Adam this wasn’t the tough part,

“Sorting out where we were going to go was the easy part; now we had nowhere to stay because last night’s accommodation was fully booked. We eventually found somewhere, but us three had to cram into a double bed, in a small room which had no fan, a shower and toilet, but no running water. Oh and blackouts. Ah living on a budget! Call it an ‘experience’.”

Sounds lovely, for the final installment of the ‘experience’, be sure to read the last paragraph of the post – there was a final surprise for Adam. Moving on from the groups’ trouble with Bissau hotels though, the exploration of the city continued with a plan formed to check in on Bafata, Gabu and Tambacounda (Senegal) before going into Mali. So we’ve got plenty to come.

This post on Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is the most recent. However, there is a host of others since we last updated you on Adam’s African adventure. This includes strange and stranger happenings in Varela and a midnight stroll that was full of incident…