{"id":432,"date":"2005-07-25T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/?p=432"},"modified":"2005-07-26T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T08:41:16","slug":"back-to-kabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/07\/25\/back-to-kabba\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Kabba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jo&#8217;s leaving today, so she wanted to make one last trip to Kabba and took Mary, Marebec and I along.<\/p>\n<p>After an uneventful journey on Friday afternoon we arrived and received the usual warm welcome from Father Noel, then had a few drinks.  The little plastic toy on Mary&#8217;s shoulder in the first picture is Nunzilla, she used to spit fire but since she was dropped on her head she&#8217;d not been the same.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/MaryAndNunzilla_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/MaryAndNunzilla_t.jpg\" alt=\"Mary with Nunzilla perched on her shoulder\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/MarebecAndJo_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/MarebecAndJo_t.jpg\" alt=\"Marebec and Jo wearing silly hats\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/NoelAndJo_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/NoelAndJo_t.jpg\" alt=\"Noel and Jo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday started slowly as people gradually crawled out of bed and had breakfast, we then watched a couple of films and went for a walk up the nearby hill (which houses the local TV transmitter).  The hill you can see in the picture is &#8220;juju hill&#8221;, a local religious site, outsiders are forbidden to climb it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/JujuHill_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/JujuHill_t.jpg\" alt=\"View across Kabba to Juju hill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob, Ronan and Dave arrived on Saturday afternoon, so the drinking started again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/BobJacintaDaveRonan_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kabba\/July05\/BobJacintaDaveRonan_t.jpg\" alt=\"Bob, Jacinta, Dave and Ronan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo&#8217;s leaving today, so she wanted to make one last trip to Kabba and took Mary, Marebec and I along. After an uneventful journey on Friday afternoon we arrived and received the usual warm welcome from Father Noel, then had a few drinks. The little plastic toy on Mary&#8217;s shoulder in the first picture is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}