Lost in Lome

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It’s amazing that Togo can have such a different feeling to Ghana. They right next door to each other and speak a common African language but when the colonial powers were carving up Africa the United Kingdom got Ghana and the French were given a little slice called […]

Border crossing West Africa style

When you’ve crossed a land border in Israel the West African version is somewhat underwhelming. We got to the border in another tro-tro, this one ruthlessly fast but safely driven with no air-conditioning but plenty of air-cooling coming in the open windows. We were deposited in Afloa, the tro-tro station being a convenient walk […]

Kumasi and Lake Bosumtwi – A blissfully quiet NYE

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We had to celebrate New Year’s Eve somewhere and owing to circumstance we ended up in the centre of Ghana in a city called Kumasi, core of the Ashanti kingdom. While staying near the beach for eleven nights we had developed a habit of going […]

Cape Coast – Land of the free, home of the slave

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Travelling in the developing world is never a totally relaxing experience, especially when the tro-tro transport have window stickers proclaiming their trust in God to look after them (I prefer not to overtake on blind corners, leaving it to divine intervention to sort out – if there is […]

Fanta’s Folly

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When we started ringing around from Accra for places to stay on the Ghanaian coast over Christmas things did not look promising at first. Many places did not have the ten days in a row we wanted or bumped up the price to huge levels over the […]

Accra, Ghana – Christmas madness

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After a brief overnighter in Dubai, which seemed ridiculously modern and comfortable after Jordan, we flew into the heart of Africa. Well, not the heart exactly, a little more to the west and on the coast to the capital of Ghana, Accra. For those that have […]