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Victor's and Barbara's Travel Diaries
 Nigeria 1970
From 1970 to 1971 Victor worked and lived in Lagos, Nigeria. With him were his first wife, Gabriella, and son Chris. We lived in an appartment, one of four, on the ground floor of a grand old, colonial-style house in a large garden filled with exotic equatorial trees and shrubs, in the Ikoyi district of Lagos.
Our house in Ikoyi Front of Lagos House
Our house in Ikoyi Our Ikoyi house
Victor and Michael Lagos Market
Victor with Michael, our gardener, outside the house in Ikoyi Lagos Market
Victor, Chris, and local boys, near Victoria Beach, Lagos Mother at Lagos market.
Victor and Chris with some local boys. Mother at Lagos Market
Fish for sale, near Lagos Fishing canoes on Victoria Beach, Lagos.
Fish for sale, Igbosere village, near Lagos. Fishing canoes on Victoria Beach, Lagos.
Canoe on Lagos Harbour Yellow Peril catamaran
A canoe at dusk on Lagos harbour, with the city in background. Our catamaran, "Yellow Peril" on Lagos Harbour.
Chris and Elizabeth chris Victor Mother
Chris, 1 year old, with Elizabeth our nanny. Mother, Victor and Chris at the Ikoyi Club
A village by the Niger River Victor and Chris on Victoria Beach
A village by the Niger River in Ibo-land. Victor and Chris on Victoria Beach