A friend of ours has just finished building a radio mast in central Benin. Last week we were invited to a fun day to celebrate the completion of the project…

First, Rob got to climb up the mast - but bottled out at about 30 feet! Here I am:

It felt very high when I was up there, but once I returned to terra ferma I could see I’d only gone about 7th of the way up!!!

Then we had a nice meal of goat and rice, then in the afternoon, the dads did a ‘treasure hunt’ around the site with the kids/ This involved making a fire African style to toast some marshmallows:

Then Ruthie got to have a mudbath:

Finally, Rob had a go on the bulldozer - rather fun, and to steer you simply apply one of the two breaks (no steering wheel!!)

After this, the kids had a fun water fight with those bags of drinking water you can buy everywhere (for less than 2p a bag!) and two braver guys climbed to the very top of the mast (about 200ft!!) Maybe next time, says Rob.