article_snippet: The streets are full of activity and schools have reopened.
article_snippet: At the Grand Royal Hotel, on Tubman Avenue, the main road through Monrovia, the manager sits in the popular café in the front garden.
article_snippet: the manager admits that while this has been good for business, the manager would rather have the manager "normal" clients back.
article_snippet: The food is familiar -- fish, plantain, rice... with lots of red pepper.
article_snippet: There are quite a few restaurants and supermarkets -- mostly run by Lebanese entrepreneurs.
article_snippet: As we drive past the Presidential "mansion" -- I ask why it looks empty and I am told that there was a fire in it a few years ago and that the renovation is not yet complete.
article_snippet: President Sirleaf uses the office of the Foreign Ministry, and otherwise lives in her private residence, I am told.
highlights_snippet: Monrovia is returning to normal after the deadly virus claimed more than 4,000 lives .