Abuja

I'm in Abuja for a few days, My first time!

Looking around I am very impressed at the way things are working here, and I wonder what it is about Lagos that makes it so much more oppressive.

The roads are moving freely, buildings are spaced apart nicely with some very nice architecture around the place too. The weather is hot and dry in the day but quite cool at night as I experienced from my balcony in my hotel room. Cars and buses don't park on main roads blocking up the whole system, and everyone seems more relaxed.

Having said that, an Oyibo took me out last night to see some of the city and as he was backing his car out of the hotel car park he smashed straight into another parked car. Nobody saw us, and there was no apparent damage (bumper to bumper) so we went away quickly ;-)

I've just managed to get on-line at my hotel, I did get on-line yesterday but the connection was very poor. My problem is I need two power sockets, one for my laptop and one for my wireless bridge which I need because none of the wireless cards I have work well with linux.

Will post some pictures if I get online again with my camera to hand. If not when I get back to Lagos.