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A Trip to Catel

The number one source of income for Guinea-Bissau is the cashew harvest. Guinea Bissau produces roughly 250,000 tons of cashew nuts annually. As such, when cashew season rolls around, we enter a time where even the kids in the villages will give 100 XOF, which, for context is a cup of street coffee or a…

Patterns

I wanted to start this post with the word rythem, reythem, rymthem, rethym, but seeing as I need to go back to 5th grade and retake spelling, I went with the word patterns. I have settled nicely into life here, which is good news! My month started off with birthdays; a lot of people in…

Plans

Our future plans were looking pretty set here: move to the restaurant and go from there, simple. As we began planning around that and continued doing market research, we came across a consultant who informed us that doing a restaurant in the area we are in would not, in fact, work. Many others had tried…