Arriving back in Accra was a huge attack of the senses. I’d almost forgotten how busy a city Accra was. There are almost 2.5 million people said to be living […]

Having spent a few days in complete luxury, the thought of piling onto a tro-tro in 45 degree heat for a lengthy journey to Cape Coast didn’t seem all that […]

The last few days in Busua had been perfect, we’d had a small little hut right next to the beach and had spent our days lounging on the beach watching the […]

A few days in Bosomtwe had really recharged our batteries; the last few weeks from northern Benin, Togo, Ghana and into Burkina and back had been great fun and a […]

I had gone to bed the night before feeling like utter crap, I’d woken up feeling better, I was now just feeling crap! We had breakfast and headed down to […]

After a pretty quiet night in Kumasi due to the torrential rain, Gen and I were up and about early only the reason we were up and about early was […]

Rudely awoken at 3:30am by my phone’s alarm I questioned my sanity and asked myself why I do this to myself year after year, why don’t I just spend a […]

We had a fairly lazy morning as the bus didn’t depart Banfora until around 11am. We were assured that we’d be in Hamele for mid afternoon and would be easily […]

Due to the power of elimination we knew which way to turn at the junction today and so we knew we were heading in the right direction, there were no […]

After yet another uneventful bus journey we arrived in Banfora in the far west of Burkina Faso. We’d decided we were going to hang out here for a few days, […]