Three weeks later

Unable to get any connection for this blog...three weeks later I'm back, snowed in and getting ready for Christamas,  I had a wonderful time at Albreda, and brought a team of builders from Senegal to the compound, and they are still there building. They are amazing, and everything is of course done by hand, in the boiling sun. They are incredibly professional and experienced, and the cement mix is very strong, as it will need to be against the salt thats in the water.
We have foundations dug for eight houses and one huge round house that goes in the middle, as well as and a cafe down by the water.
The round house is 15 metres across. I have to confess I really didnt know what a meter was, and found the variety of languages and currencies quite challenging.  French, Wollof , and English are the languages I can rely on a bit, and Dalasi, Cefa, pounds and dollars were reverberating. I finally got the hang of it.!
I know what a ton of cement looks like too, and we have so far used 14 tons of it, not to mention the sand and gravel.
My favourite was being visited by the fishermen who bring me shrimps, and I cant wait to share this incredibly fresh food, fish, fruit, and cllimate with my first guests next December