{"id":30060,"date":"2026-02-28T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:40:55","slug":"our-west-africa-cruise-to-senegal-and-the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"Our West Africa cruise to Senegal and The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love travel and, over my 77 years, I&#8217;ve done over 200 foreign trips. Recently &#8211; together with my fianc\u00e9e Tess &#8211; I made my first visit to West Africa. It was a cruise to Senegal and The Gambia. You can read an account of our holiday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/WestAfrica\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/WestAfrica\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the number of countries that I&#8217;ve visited to 93. You can see the full list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/countries.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/countries.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always remember the wry comment attributed to the American writer Susan Sontag (1933-2004):<em>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t been everywhere, but it&#8217;s on my list.&#8221;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love travel and, over my 77 years, I&#8217;ve done over 200 foreign trips. Recently &#8211; together with my fianc\u00e9e Tess &#8211; I made my first visit to West Africa. It was a cruise to Senegal and The Gambia. You can read an account of our holiday here. This brings the number of countries that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30066,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}