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I arrived at the Prospect Lodge in Cape Coast at 11:06 a.m. I had to wait about 15 minutes while they got my room ready. I was then taken to Room 116. It didn't take me long to notice the air-conditioning did not work (fan came on but was blowing warm air), the toilet seat was not attached to the bowl, the bracket for the shower nozzle was hanging …
Accra to Cape Coast by Bus
I had no problem getting out of bed today. I actually woke up at 5:30 a.m., 20 minutes before my alarm was set to go off. There's nothing like having a bus (or plane or train) to catch to motivate one to get up and get going.
I departed my Accra hotel at 6:37 a.m. and had an 11-minute taxi ride to the STC bus station. When I went up to …
Slavery, crabs and police
After Kakum National Park we headed back to Cape Coast to visit Cape Coast Castle. This is a World Heritage Site and one of the biggest slaving forts of the colonial and slavery era. Inside the castle we had a guided tour which involved some history of the castle and it's role in slavery . We saw the tiny cramped conditions of the male and female …
Slavery
... food at 6 (the first proper meal of the day), I was then forced to wait until half past eight for an expensive (albeit tasty) pizza to arrive - apparently fufu would take them 2 hours, although the pizza took them one and a half...
Still, the next morning made up for it. We got up and took the bus straight down the coast west to Elmina, now a small fishing town. For the first time on the tour, I wished I could have spent a few days, rather than a few hours, in a ...
First impressions of a whole new world
... to stop, which, thank the heavens, he does. He says something about a bush so i go into the long grass (taller than me) only to alnost fall into fast running brown water- which apparently attracts biting flies. But i'm unbelievably desperate so i go anyway- mustve lasted about 5 mins. When i emerge, there are sbout 5 people from the coach all peeing, and i almost walk into a woman just standing letting the pee flow from inside her skirt. Ghanaians are certainly bizarre! ...
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