But my new adventurer spirit is not daunted for long...
We set out after breakfast for a real day of playing tourist ... we are going to visit a fort, a lighthouse and a museum...
The fort and lighthouse are in Jamestown, which is a really a shanty town in Accra... The fort is crumbling and decaying... a horrible reminder of a distant past... it had a kind of faded beauty ...
The lighthouse is still well kept... but the shanty town has grown in the five years since i last walked there...
The museum was a walk across town and was quite minimal...
The best part of our day was a wonderful discovery... a restaurant frequented by Ghanaians where we ate a delicious feast...
Our last stop as tourists was the Cultural Center. We had decided to go back... I felt they should go back because i remembered i enjoyed it much more the second time after the shock of the vendors.... so even though they felt trepidation we went..
The Center was very quiet as it was Sunday... and those vendors that were there were less aggressive. We all split up and really enjoyed ourselves... Both Kathy and Clarisse did their first bargaining bearing off their prizes quite triumphantly... i know that feeling...
I got a few beads just to keep my hand in ...
We spent the evening watching the sun go down and reading...
It had been a really nice interlude: the weekend. I had really enjoyed the time spent with Kathy and Clarisse.. we had discovered Accra together...The girls would go off on their own tomorrow and i would be starting the last leg of my adventure!
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