As usual the Man from over the road woke us with his Islamic chanting at five, and the chickens crowing, we got up and had bread and cheese with juice and coffee for breakfast. John then tried downloading the photos from previous days, it takes so long. Finally we decided to go back to Osu where we noticed they have an Oxford Street. We leapt in a taxi and agreed on 8 cedis. The taxi took us to the main shopping street, named after London's Oxford Street as s...

We're having a lot more trouble finding decent internet connections on this trip so far than we did in Borneo, so I'm afraid that our blog entries are appearing on a slightly eratic basis at the moment. Stick with us! It can only get better as we head deeper into the Ashanti region! Everyone has a real laid back atitude to everything and the place were staying at the moment has a fantastic looking Internet Cafe with 7 or 8 state of the art monitors and keyboard...