you live where?!?
Over the last several weeks we’ve spent a lot of time looking at new places to live once school returns, we’ve given directions to new expats in Kumasi, I’ve drawn […]
Tag Archives: first impressions
Mystery item of the week
We are having airconditioning installed in our little car. So, I was following a driver from the mine where Bill works to the aircon shop. This is lucky for several […]
Obama fever
Oh-bama! While the election is not ours, and by ours I mean the rest of the world, it’s been impossible to ignore hasn’t it? Impossible not to form some sort […]
a chair fit for a Queen
Hi there, Do you like my new chair? Beautiful huh? I bought it yesterday in Konongo from a store which sells all manner of ‘chiefly’ items. How cool is that? […]
The biggest market in West Africa!
Everyday is market day in Kumasi, courtesy of the sprawling, self contained metropolis that is Kejetia Market. Reputedly the biggest market in West Africa, it boasts a staggering 10,000 stallholders […]
School report
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 know you’re back in West Africa when…
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 […]
Part of our daily lives in Ghana – the toll
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 […]
We’re back.
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 […]
A true story, part II. Or is it possible to learn from our mistakes?
Hi Chrissie here. The kids and I are having a sweet sweet time in the Paris, but I thought I’d fill you in on our next exciting adventure of buying […]
six degrees north 