Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 17th, 2006
Beep! beep! went my alarm the next morning but in the background the noise of
rain meant I had a legitimate excuse not to get up and go and see the Cape
Coast castle. These slaving forts are the African equivalent of Asian temples
and you need to see a few before you can be considered a tourist, [...]
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Im walking in the Air
Today was the big day I was going to do something touristy! I didn’t get up
very early after getting into ‘The Da Vinci Code’ which I hadn’t read before.
After a quick lunch of egg sandwiches on the roof I jumped into a taxi for
the 40km ride to Kakum National Park. I got there for pretty [...]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
On the road again
The girls were heading east back to Accra and then the east coast and I was
going back to Cape Coast to see the rainforest so our paths we together for a
while. They dropped their bags of at my room to wake me up and pack while
they hiked over to see the castle. They didn’t get [...]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Waste of a day
I got up feeling fine, I hadn’t drunk that much to feel bad the next day and
Ghanaian beer hasn’t given me a hangover yet, obviously I need to do some more
research! I found the girls eating breakfast by the beach in my hotel, the
local guy chatting them up wasn’t very happy to see me but [...]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Money?
When I woke up, the bikini was gone! Not quite as funny as my crap joke about
dreaming I was eating a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was
gone, but i felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders. Not taking any chances
I skipped breakfast (couldn’t afford it anyway) and skipped all the [...]
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Is there any escape?
Next day I nearly managed to get up in time, but not quite. My jet lag from
working nights at the weekend was still killing me, and I was still in that
dump. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the country but it was kind
of weird after SE Asia, with wall to wall [...]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Hangin’ with the locals
I tried to get up early the next day and failed miserably, I was as lazy as
the guy making my shake and pancake that I ordered before starting to write
this! I was never going to get out of my dump of a hotel if I didn’t get up.
No windows, noisy fan, the shower was [...]
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Walking in the Dark
Later the next day, much later, i had a better crack at it. The hotel was a
dump and I didn’t want to eat there. After about two hours of walking I
finally found the restaurant I was looking for. People were very friendly as
I walked around confused, saying hello and waving, nice country I thought.
The [...]
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
Independance Day
Africa » Ghana » Accra
Flight was ok despite being delayed by an hour or so from Amsterdam. Had to
kick a Ghanaian guy out of my window seat. which is good preparation for the
weeks ahead. Over mainland Africa you could see the desert but it was soon
swallowed up in dust and sand. the ground then just [...]
