Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Dry and Dusty
The next stop was Tamale, but we had quite a journey ahead of us to get there. For starters we were on the wrong side of the lake, and our choices were a car ferry at 9pm, or a people boat at 7am. We were strongly advised to get the earlier one, and I guess [...]
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Salty Dogs
I got up at 11am and packed, checked out at noon but was pretty hungry. I woke up with a pain in my stomach though, it felt like there was a brick in my stomach, obviously something I had hadn’t agreed with me. I had a bit of a headache too, but no fever. Still, [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Recovery
Dragged myself out of bed in the afternoon and got myself back down to Osu to buy a charger for my gadgets. I’d found one the previous day in a camera shop which would do it but didn’t want to carry it around all day. I bumped into the yannks playing Jazz from the previous [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Bongos, Be-Bop and Strawberries
As drunk as I was I still had something to remember, the place to meet for the following night. I got Jo to shout it into my camera as a video so I would remember. But first I needed some food to recover so I heading back to Osu for a bad coffee, terrible sandwich [...]
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
Being a bastard, all day…
tap tap tap….
tap tap tap….
tap tap tap….
oh god, no prizes for guessing who was knocking on my door. I was buggered if
i was getting up or even answering, I was on holiday! There was an outside
chance it was someone from the hotel but I wasn’t going to rick making a
sound. Eventually it stopped and I [...]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Beach Life, it’s the only life I know…
early (for me) the next day it was time for the beach. And time for my first
encounter with that legendary Ghanaian mode of transport, the Tro-Tro! Got to
the Tro station, ask a few people where the tro to angona leaves from and get
on board. Its basically a minibus with fold up seats in the aisles [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Road trip!
I managed to crawl out of my sweaty room in time for a quick breakfast of
chocolate spread on bread and milo. The woman looked at me like i was mad for
wanting food at 11.30! I had decided to head down the coast, apparently
busua was a backpacker mecca in Ghana, surely there would be parties and
beach [...]
