Monthly Archives: February 2012

Highs and lows of an incredible country….

Having waited all day and half the evening for one of our visas to be issued we made a mad dash for the Benin border from Lome (a mere 50 odd Km’s) to make sure that we did not overstay … Continue reading

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The road less travelled…

Having left the relative comforts of English speaking Ghana we made our way towards Lome (via a single bush camp from Accra) the capital of Togo and French-speaking West Africa’s smallest nation.  The first thing that struck me about Togo … Continue reading

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Ghana

My first thought when we crossed the border from Burkina Faso into Ghana was that it was so good to be able to speak English again after 2 months of struggling with French. It was also the first predominantly Christian … Continue reading

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