I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. - Bill Bryson

24 September 2019, Lomé
Hotel Alcor 15,000XOF (R375)  

Our obnoxious bureaucrat was in a marginally better frame of mind this morning, handing us each a form to complete in exchange for the required 500XOF, and when we handed them and our passports back to him, telling us to return tomorrow at 10:00. He did try to tell us our 7-day visas had already expired, but we were able to show him this was not the case.
Spent a lazy day reading, catching up the blog, and watching YouTube, then dined again at the Seven Days restaurant.