Leftovers, anyone?

Leftovers, anyone?

In my house leftovers entered the stage with me. The kids pretend they like them and my husband makes tremendous efforts to eat them because, sometimes, I don’t offer an alternative.  Leftover food is still kind of a tabou in this country. It’s mostly for the poor,...
Wanna grab a quick bite?

Wanna grab a quick bite?

Walking around Dakar you will see makeshift tents at every street corner, tied to poles, so that they kind of make a “room”. It is the gargottes, little low-profile restaurants with only a table and a few benches, where you can have breakfast (sandwiches with eggs,...
Taxis

Taxis

According to a 2020 research (data from the World Bank and the National Institute of Statistics and Demographics *) there are 25,000 taxis roaming the streets of Dakar every day, for roughly 400,000 travelers (in an almost 4,000,000 people city). Taxis are easy to...
How I became a stepmother overnight

How I became a stepmother overnight

It was the end of the summer, my brand new husband’s youngest children (11 and 13 years old) had spent the whole summer with us. In the summer everything goes, you wake up late and eat ice cream at all times, and I was absolutely not interested in issuing directives...