Accra: After an intense 36 stop hours in London where we fixed the last details and said goodbye to that crazy town and all our friends once again, here we are! Good Mombert was waiting for us at the airport, and is kindly hosting us in his immense house just the city centre.
The first impression is really good. All the paperwork I have been meticulously collecting in the last month turned out to be irrelevant, as all the frontier guard was interested in was whether Cami loved me or the other way around.
We had a long walk in the centre, had breakfast with a pineapple and a papaya chopped on the spot by a street vendor. People are generally very friendly, incredibly chilled, and seem to enjoy sleeping, as they sleep anywhere, no matter age or gender.
We changed money and somehow got a massive block of 100 pieces of 1 cedi, which is turning out to be quite handy. Bought sim cards and semi unblocked my phone. I say semi because the phone butcher, ehmm... repair centre, we went to managed to wipe out my memory and suggested I bought a sim from a different network. All this charging me 12 cedis. :-)
Being spotted as a tourist can get a little annoying, especially now that we don't know how to deal with the vendors or what prices are, but that can only improve with time.
When shopping in the koala supermarket (which by the way has everything down to chinese noodles), we bumped into Maud, the Ethiopian ODI and her boyfriend Olly, a very cool scot.
Radio Ghana from Accra. stay tuned
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