Our home

Our home in Accra is located in Dome Village, quite nice and peaceful neighborhood. Only problem is that it’s located in the outskirts – so we have to drive for a while to get anywhere, and Accra is full of traffic jams (mostly in the morning and after 5pm till 9pm). If you have bad luck it can take almost hour to get to the town center.

Anyway back to home;) I have to admit it’s huge. It has approx. 10 rooms, 5 bathrooms, kitchen and 2 large living rooms (I will provide pictures of inside later) and garage. It’s worth mentioning that all bedrooms have air conditioners installed so we can hide from the heat there. It’s not that hot yet, but staying outside when temperature passes 30 degrees C is tiring (especially when you are working).

Neighborhood. Road which leads to our home have no name. Only streets in the center of town have names. Our home has no number either;) so it’s rather hard to explain how to get to our place;) Anyway just on the corner we have grocery shop (next to Sky Blue Air-Conditioners), on the opposite is large villa – family which lives there deals with water (they pack water in small plastic bags which you can buy everywhere here). I don’t know who lives on the left and right;) – just normal pplz I guess. Behind our home there is small banana plantation (this are green bananas which are only good when you cook them).

Another important part of our “home” are two cats and two dogs. Dogs are still puppies (about 5 month old), their names are: Peace (girl) and Jupiter (boy). Cats don’t have names and are quite wild – won’t let them touch you or pet them, only moment when you can touch them is when you bring some food. Dogs were scared of us at first too, but after several “we bring food” events we bought their trust and love:).

We have also own water tank (quite popular in Ghana since running water is not available everywhere) and well. Only problem is that water is a bit salty, so we use mineral water to cook, drink and brush teeth;).

Last but not least – fence. Most fences in Ghana have metal spikes, broken glass or barbed wire on it (I saw one electric fence too!). It all looks rather scary. Reason of that is to protect from burglars – few years ago there were many accidents of house robbery caused mainly by Nigerian coming to Ghana (dunno why and what for – anyway it’s common here that you don’t like ppl from Nigeria here. They are believed to be cheaters).

That would be all for today:) here are pics of things I mention in this note. Stay tuned for “inside of our house” note.

Cats on the left, dogs on the right;) (Jupiter is the black one).