Sidi:

Do not bother to reply this e-mail.

Your are right! Yes, our ordeal was on a Saturday. I'll never forget those
two nights in Conakry. I keep telling a Guinean friend who lives here in
Birmingham, that it is ONLY in Conakry that you find a hotel without
electricty, water, food, bedsheets, telephones etc, and yet the hotel calls
itself a Five Star Hotel!!! May God bless The Gambia! But may God also bless
Guinea Conakry!

Anyway, I better stop here. I am about to watch the England/Germany football
match. I did not expect the Republic of Ireland to beat Holland.

Ebrima




>From: Sidi Sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: A Proud Father of a Gambian-American Diplomat
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:06:51 -0500
>
>Ebrima,
>
>Thanks. I will pass on your message to Fatuma.  I most certainly remembered
>Hotel Maria Dorr in Guinea: no telephone, no clean water and an ample
>supply of bed bugs etc. I felt sorry for those little children who had to
>go through it all for two nights while waiting for spares to be flown in
>from Abidjan for our onward journey to Banjul. If you will recall, it was a
>Saturday and according to the crew, stores were closed for the week-end and
>passangers had to wait until Monday for spares for the landing gear and
>front tyres to be procured and flown to Conakry. For those of us in these
>neck of the woods, this is reality.  I cannot say we are used to it, but we
>manage somehow.  Cheers!
>
>Sidi Sanneh
>
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