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  • Day 44: Botanical Gardens

    After a quick meeting with the head of Ghana Scout and Guide Fellowship we went to the botanical gardens about 30km north of Accra. A nice place and picked up a couple more geocache finds at the same time

  • Day 43: Sleeping, Reading and a Meal

    I had a disturbed nights sleep last night. As well as they high humidity I had at least one small companion with me in the room. A hungry companion who had a nibble on my ankles and my back.

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    Musings: Power and the Internet

    Since I have been in Ghana the electricity supply has been off more often than it is on. The current ‘power crisis’ has been going on for over a year now and shows now signs of improvement, despite several political promises.

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    Day 42: Sierra Leone Visa

    I received an email from Street Child today with a letter of introduction for my visa application. Due to power; cuts so nobody able to print it for me, I took a chance and went to the consul with it on a memory stick. Fortunately they agreed to…

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    Day 41: Geocaching

    For those that do not geocache. Please check out www.geocaching.com. I introduced Hussain to geocaching today. In the whole of the city of Accra there are only 3 caches. Hopefully now the Ghana Scouts will rectify that by hiding some more.

  • Day 40: A Dam Good One

    I picked up Hussain this morning and we went up to the hydro electric dam at Akosombo. It is across the river Volta and provides much of the country’s electricity and that of neighbouring countries. I was expecting something huge but, although big, it was not massive. There…