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Category Archives: leaving

Leaving Kumasi: reflections, obervations and a list

January 22, 2014by Chris 10 Comments

A lifetime ago I worked on a northern Australian cattle station. One of those places so huge they dwarf small European countries and their annual cattle muster is done by […]

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Africa, Ghana, Kumasi, leaving

Endings, Beginnings and Hope for the future

December 19, 2013by Chris 7 Comments

  Had we not chosen to leave Australia and embark on this African experience our eldest daughter would have just finished primary school. She would have joined her oldest and […]

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Children, expat, leaving, school

press the shift key

August 14, 2013by Chris 3 Comments

  So we’re back in Ghana. Six weeks of chatting and eating and drinking, socialising and walking, and chatting and eating some more. The trips to the dentist and the […]

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culture, expat, Ghana, leaving, Newcastle, Travel

The (not-) final countdown

June 21, 2013by Chris 11 Comments

It’s a feast or a famine isn’t it? We lead a pretty quiet life most of the time, hell some weeks could be described as crushingly dull. But the last […]

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culture, driving, expat, leaving, Newcastle, Travel, Uncategorized

What do you miss?

November 11, 2012by Chris 8 Comments

Well we are coming up to 9 months away from home now. The acutely painfull homesickness has passed, as has the thrill of the new. Both replaced by a sense […]

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emigration, expat, leaving

All by myself…

July 25, 2012by Chris 2 Comments

Well, Chrissie and the kids are off again – this time making tracks to a cooler climate, Australia. Actually, the heat here has backed right off and it is contstantly […]

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Children, emigration, expat, friends, Ghana, holidays, leaving, Newcastle, school, Travel, travelling with children, travelling with kids
Sydney departures

On the road…

February 18, 2012by Chris 1 Comment

After an extraordinarily full few months, we are on our way to Ghana. While I’ve never lost sight of what wonderful friends we have been blessed with, the irony is […]

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leaving, Uncategorized

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