what makes you happy?
So what does make you happy? And why do I have an apparently random picture of a pretty average road? There are the universal precepts of happiness: friends, family, meaningful […]
So what does make you happy? And why do I have an apparently random picture of a pretty average road? There are the universal precepts of happiness: friends, family, meaningful […]
Can you imagine this sign on the streets of Sydney? New York? London? Overwhelmingly Ghana is a very polite society. Sure you hear raised voices and of course violence does […]
A sure sign that we are back into the swing of things, is that school is back. There are some very siginificant differences between schooling in Ghana and in Australia. […]
You are wished ‘God Bless You’ more times in a week than in your first 39 years You put on bug repellant to go out and night to feed the […]
Galamsay mining is informal or artisanal mining, and is also called small scale mining. The word galamsay is a variant of ‘gather and sell’. Over 1,000,000 Ghanains gather, and a […]
On the road between Konongo and Kumasi is a toll. It has become one of the daily fixtures of our lives. Not the impersonal “beep” as the toll reader in […]
As I said in my last post, we are adapting not only to a whole new way of shopping, but also a much changed shopping list. There are no longer […]
And what better way to settle into our Ghanaian home than to watch a few games of football between the mine teams in celebration of Ghana’s Republic day holiday. You […]
After our trip about the Peleponnese, we headed to Kythera island. Kythera is the island which hangs off the bottom (that sounds gross!) of the Peleponnese, and while officially an […]
Ok, it’s impossible to write about the cultured beauty of Paris without resorting to cliches. I loved it. A city populated with stunning architecture, red geraniums, boulangeries, book shops (yes, […]