You know it’s been a trying week when your highlights include an electric shock and being taken to the police.
But a combination of the heat, total culture shock, a toddler with a temperature and a running battle with a generator made my first week in Sierra Leone a stressful one.
I sampled my first taste of Sierra Leone before I’d even left London – on the runway at Heathrow, ahead of my eight-hour overnight flight.
Feeling nervous about trying to control a livewire 17-month-old, I apologised in advance to the guy next to me for the inevitable disturbance my daughter would cause.
