Zebilla is such a lovely little town! It's one strip of main road, with the hills of Burkina Faso in the distance on one side, and a huge expanse of farmland and rural communities on the other. It has a fantastic small town vibe, full of noise, colour and cacophony on market days, and a quieter hum-drum of rural African life on the others. The people are fantastically friendly, as we were confidently told they would be, and every journey takes twice the length...

Finally I have arrived at my new home!!! Arriving at the house I was greeted by all the members of the free range community that happen to live on our doorstep and roam about our house. First was the family of chubby and rather hairy pigs that I practically had to climb over to reach the doorstep seeing as they were too concerned with their snuffling in the mud to even notice my arrival. The naughty-looking goats loitering by the mango tree like a bunch o...

22nd Feb 2012 Long journey. Long blog post. Long time before I'll forget this adventure. When I was told to bring an alarm clock, because the busses leave early in Ghana, I promptly popped that on my list of pre-trip birthday presents, and one was magically conjoured up (or at least ordered on the ASDA website, which to me now does seem like magic) by my wonderful friend Penny and it was popped safely and happily into my bag. Now I wish I had left the d...

"I'm back!" Finally I'm back on my blog!! Apologies for the blank space for a while! The last couple of weeks have been a fully blown adjustment period and settling in process, one that has taken me much longer than expected, and I suspect is not yet over with J. The rhythm of life in Ghana though is like the music here, sometimes a crazy techo beat, others a traditional drum and a beautiful women singing, and I feel really lucky to have landed in such a vibra...

Uh oh, I've done it… I've broken into the Harribo already! And even the Green and Black's supply I had. Flip yesterday was an exhausting day! The day started well, after a really good nights sleep, a tasty breakfast of fresh fruit, cereal and beans on toast (!) (oops this isn't meant to be turning into a food blog sorry, I think it's just going to be a recurring theme!), and an interesting session on health and hygiene in Ghana (such as how to figure out w...