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Greece’s image problem.

July 10, 2015by Chris Leave a comment

In the surreal, wonderful world of summer holidays, I’m writing to you from Greece. In a whitewashed hotel room, with furniture painted in inimitable shades of Greek sea blue and […]

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Greece, travelling with kids

Ebola: heartbreak, stupidity and bravery

September 18, 2014by Chris 1 Comment

This month, most of the avoidable and unnecessary setbacks in the fight to stop Ebola can be linked to stupidity. Unfortunately, history shows that stupidity is a pandemic, and, like […]

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Africa, ebola, expat, Ghana, Travel, West Africa

Home is where… the internet connects automatically?

September 8, 2014by Chris 11 Comments

In Australia, mid year was that difficuilt time, nothing special going on, a wintery greyness punctuated by days of cold, clear sunshine. But there was no event to be marked […]

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Accra, Africa, Australia, expat, friends, Ghana, holidays, travelling with children, travelling with kids

Ghanaian road signs simplified

July 27, 2014by Chris 12 Comments

If you’re not Ghanaian, and want to drive in Ghana, you have to get your Ghanaian licence. A reliable supplier of Novocain (for the town traffic) and more traditional styles of nose candy (for […]

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driving, expat, Ghana, transport, Travel, West Africa

Lest we forget

April 25, 2014by Chris 3 Comments

We woke in the darkness before dawn and drove through the rarely quiet streets of Accra this morning to Christiansborg War Cemetery to attend an ANZAC day dawn service. Like […]

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Accra, Australia, culture

Lessons learnt

April 15, 2014by Chris 14 Comments

Over the last few weeks I have been learning some important lessons, both from my recent university enrollment, and from the greatest teacher of them all…life. University has started and […]

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Accra, Africa, culture

Home, places in the heart

March 10, 2014by Chris 6 Comments

Since moving overseas I have become intrigued with the concept of home. About the ties that bind us to a place, even if that place has not been ‘home’ for […]

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Africa, new home

TGIA – let’s take a drive

February 7, 2014by Chris 12 Comments

{TGIA – Thank God it’s Africa, is my weekly look at the weird and wonderful things that happen when you’re living in Africa.  Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re a little dangerous, […]

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Accra, Africa, driving, Driving adventures, expat, Ghana, Kumasi, places to visit in Ghana, TGIA

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

What I did on my Christmas holidays!

January 15, 2014by Chris 2 Comments

Welcome to 2014! Another year done, another Christmas, another birthday passed. I’m a firm believer in not bemoaning another birthday, but being quietly thankful for another year passing. After all, […]

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Christmas, Travel, weather

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