Back in Ghana

We have been back in Ghana for 2 weeks now.  I have been snapping photos with my new camera.  Here are a few of my favourites;

Last Monday, after work, we had a BBQ with all our workers.  They love to pose for the camera.

Christy did most of the cooking, whilst Be prepared the peppe – a blend of onion, tomato, and green and red chillies – spicy!

Obu and Senke are turning into the scary guard dogs that we hoped they would become;

  

Every evening we take the dogs for a walk along the beach.  I love this part of the day.  We rarely see anyone else on the beach that stretches for miles.  

Last Sunday our boss, Renae, and her family came to visit for the day.  This is her 2 year old son, Ben;

         

We all had a marvellous day, hanging out on the beach, kayaking in the sea and eating BBQ-ed burgers. 

Tim even took the dogs for a ride in the Kayak!

Some local boys performed some acrobatics for us on the beach;

This week, the biggest festival of the year is taking place in Prampram.  Homowo, is the festival to punish hunger.   Everyone in the town cooks large bowls of palm nut soup with fish or goat meat and invites their friends and family to dine with them.  This ensures that everyone in the town gets food and hence does not go hungry.

We were invited to join our friends Isaac and Helen, who own the bar which we visit regularly.  The food was delicious.  The street was packed with people whilst music was blasted from massive speakers.  A procession of carnival floats drove up and down the street.  These ‘floats’ consisted of  taxis with women sitting on the bonnet, roof and hanging from the window, whilst drinking liquor straight from the bottle!

This man was selling hats at the festival!

On Saturday, as part of this festival we are going to watch “Miss Prampram”; the annual beauty pageant.  I will be sure to share some photos of this with you J




Lyd xx