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Oct 10
Everything is going fine in Accra, Ghana, am taking it easy in the heat. The people here have a great sense of humour and are incredibly friendly and relaxed. Accra is a very modern city, the internet is everywhere and you can buy anything in the shops or from baskets on peoples heads.

Ghana

Stevemonty
2005-09-23 19:03:29

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Oct 10
Everything is going fine in Accra, Ghana, am taking it easy in the heat. The people here have a great sense of humour and are incredibly friendly and relaxed. Accra is a very modern city, the internet is everywhere and you can buy anything in the shops or from baskets on peoples heads.
Within 24 hours I was working on a website for beer and dinner! for Nii & Beatrice the hotel owners where I'm staying. Hotel Marymart

I've chosen some dark blue patterned batik cloth and the woman at the hotel is making me a long sleeve blue african shirt. should look real good when it's done. It's also much cheaper here than i first thought, the currencies were downvalued again when the euro came out so an hour on the internet costs about 40p.

It's great seeing women bound for market carrying baskets on their heads, lots of people wanting to talk to you in the street and school kids laughing at you when you talk to them. The food is good too I've had a filling meal called Red Red, which is grilled fish covered in spicy black eye beans and with plantain fried in palm oil at the National museum for under 2 quid. Also Palm light soup with Fufu, a spicy palm soup with huge pieces of goat meat, liver and a large dollop of Cassava dumpling called Fufu. Last night I met up with George, the brother of a friend of Diana and Monica's in London, we went to the Bus Stop bar and drank locally brewed 7.5% Guiness.

I plan to travel the same itinary but clockwise instead because of weather and border crossings. Next I will visit Kokrobite for a while to learn the drums and relax on the beach, then visit Cape Coast to see the UNESCO slave forts. At least 12.5 million slaves possibly up to 50 million left Africa under the collaboration between European and African traders.
Oct 17

The traveller hostel there puts on a traditional Ghanian music and dancing evening, the previous week had been the Ghanian Aklowa ...