As we had to stay the weekend in Dakar to get Lenny’s temporary import licence extended, we decided to take the short trip on the Chaloupe ferry to Ile de Goree.
This is a tiny, beautiful, gentrified, car-free island with pastel coloured houses and a horrific past. It was one of the islands along the west African coast where colonialists held millions of human beings as slaves for over 300 years. Ile de Goree was known as ‘the place of no return’.
There is a history museum in one of the buildings and the other is kept as it would have been with tiny cells for women, men and children and punishment cells only 3ft high. The slave masters actually lived with their families above this horror.
The contrast between the beauty and tranquility of the island with its restaurants, beach and art market and its long and inhuman history is stark.
Due South 
Loving the blogs you two… Deeply envious on a gloomy January morning on Holloway Road.