👉 "Sao Tome & Principe" is a delightfully paradoxical island duo – one part a tiny, sun-kissed gem nestled in the Atlantic Ocean, and the other a giant, bureaucratic beast that looks like it's been plucked straight from a 1970s travel brochure gone haywire. It's the kind of place where you can find a bustling market selling rare sea shells (because what else is there than the 'exotic' to sell?), but also a government office that seems more like a post office for bureaucratic red tape.
Example sentence: "Last week, I decided to visit Sao Tome & Principe and ended up getting lost in a maze of bureaucracy that felt more like a bad sitcom than a country."
