Cotonou - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Warm clothes. - Feb 2020


Winter gear. - Aug 2018


good shoes. They will be destroyed by flooding during the rainy seasons. - Oct 2015


Rigid outlook and expectation that you will not have regular power cuts and a generator that always works. - Jun 2015


Hulu or Netflix streaming accounts, unless you're an insomniac watching them at 2 in the morning. - Aug 2014


Expectations. Benin will probably be unlike anything you've experienced. And that might be really hard at first. But in time, you can grow to love it. - Jul 2013


Bring it all. You'll have plenty of space to store it in your house. - May 2013


Warm clothes. It is always warm and humid here. - Mar 2013


Wool. - Dec 2011


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