B for Benin

A belated and brief blurb about our "besoek" to Benin

• began with a beach for a breather - but that was brief - we were bothered by barking that drove Peggy beserk
• battling with French - Belinda becoming bilingual
• brown, barren bush beset with baobabs and boulders
• bathing in blue pools below beautiful waterfalls
• bountiful birding - barbets, bush-shrikes and bulbuls 
• bargaining for bric-a-brac - beads, bracelets, batiks and bronzes
• a banquet for Christmas - our beverage . . not beer, a bottle of wine with blissful bouquet
• Abomey - barbaric kings of before - battles, bloodshed and beheadings
• Ouidah - bondage and slavery - a "billion" barefeet, chained - broken souls boarding boats from the beach, bound for beyond
• bon homie and new friendships - buddies my bru
• "black magic and voodoo - bones, beasts and boas
• a birthday - blessed am I