The Gambia and Senegal in Winter

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In this film I have tried to capture some aspects of West African life that my wife and I encountered on a trip in January of 2016 to the Gambia and the Casamance province of Senegal. We spent a week in a Western-style seaside hotel in Greater Banjul to gently break us into West African life before setting off for a guesthouse in the bush near Abéné in Senegal, where life is rather more basic. In the Gambia we were fortunate enough to see in the very grounds of our hotel several specimens of birdlife that we'd never seen before, lizards different to the ones we know in France and even a troop of monkeys! The highlight was possibly an impromptu fish market we witnessed on the beach, and an unexpected experience was that of a live performance of music given to accompany a meal at the hotel restaurant. The highlight of our stay in the Casamance was indisputably setting foot on the beach just at the time the fishing boats were coming ashore and unloading their catch. To get to the Gambia we flew from Limoges to Liverpool, took a train from there to Manchester and caught a flight for Banjul.