This weekend was good. Bar B Q Friday evening with friends and guys from work. That was in our condo compound. Saturday out for Ghana lunch with some locals. So much fun going with people from here who know what is what. Also a great chance to meet and make friends with locals. We were not by the management allowed to take photos in the restaurant. It was a very well know local place called Azmera Restaurant, which served a buffet of about 50 different dishes all made with local recipies. Click here or here for Web photos. Worth the "click" !!!! Absolutely fabulous. Soups, stews, plantins, yams, cassava, rice, beans, fry ups etc etc. Just to name a few. Next time I will take photos just I'll do it carefully.
Sunday went out for a walk. Not a great deal to see on the main roads. Especially on Sundays. Think everyone is in Church. Roads empty, shopping malls quite deserted. There are a few side shops/shacks selling wooden carving and statues. Here is a very religious country and unlike Thailand which is full of Buddah statues here is full of Crosses, statues of the Virgin Mary and Christ. So same but different if you know what I mean. And the little houses are actually dog hutss !!!!!!
Talking of churches. Here there are literally thousands, seem to be one on each corner and squeezed into any other small plots along the roadside. I asked about this and why it was so. Seems they are actually in a lot of cases businesses. If you are someone with a lot of Charisma and the "gift of the gab", and you can inspire your local community go open a church. That seems to be the way. You run it and they donate. I do not know how this can work for sustaining so many different places but apparently it does.... I'll be trying to get more informaton on this, as clearly there could be a business oportunity here for me !!!!