Food of the week & chicken hunter & stuff

Here we go with another sexy note^^ Time has come to announce new food of the week – this time something cold, icy cold, sweet and cheap! Ladies and gentlemen prepare yourself for FANICE!

FanIce is one of the products of Ghanaian company – as name says it’s an ice cream:) You can buy also other produscts such as FanChoco (Choco ice cream) or FanYogo (frozen yogurt). It’s available almost everywhere in Accra. Sellers can be found almost on every street – they always have funny trumpet (one clown has, at least that’s how it looks like to me) which makes sound which you can’t forget;) – so generally you hear FanMilk is coming before you see it (FanMilk is name of the company). They carry frozen products in portable fridges (they look like picnic fridge but I’m not sure it’s same thing). Generally when you buy it it’s not deep frozen but it’s not melted too;) One FanIce costs 2500 Cedis, it comes wrapped usually in piece of newspaper;) – you make small hole in it with you teeth and squeeze it into your mouth. Yummy!

Guys who sell them also have in their stock other nice thing – meat pie, but that’s one of Food of the week candidates so I won’t write more about them this time.

Picture on the left shows how typical seller of FanMilk products looks like, as you can see they carry their stock on small carts, sometimes bikes. I have seen several times "FanMilk depot" there were many of this carts or bikes parked there:) I guess company rents them to sellers.
Picture on the right - Mr. FanIce himself!

Picture below was taken when we were heading back home on the other day. Normally we just go by car and smoothly park on our plot, but that day road was blocked by number of ppl pushing on a small cart… well see it yourself. I will only say we had to move our car on someone’s plot to let them go… can’t write much more about it – picture tells everything:D




Chicken hunter man!

Chicken hunter is new, war name I came up with for our lady-dog Peace. All started with CH (Chicken hunter) watching our fence – or actually hole in it (water goes out to the street sewer through this hole) all day long (taking brakes to eat and feed puppies). We have been wondering what’s this all about – took us couple of days to find out.

It looks like not only small dogs were born recently, but also small chickens. This, already, not that small creatures did not expect the danger which hides behind our fence… one of them got inside and got eaten… Now CH awaits his second victim – so be aware!

On the pic: Chicken Hunter awaiting its prey, on the right chicken supplier hole.


PS. Last notes are not consisting information about Ghana. I will try to write more facts about Ghana in upcomming notes!

We’re back & Harmattan

Long story short – we’re back to Accra (we came back last weekend – 03.02). Christmas and our break from work were short but awesome! I wish we could’ve stayed longer in Poland. Anyway we left cold home and exchanged it to hot Africa (daily temperature is atm about 30 – 35 degrees).

Also we’re in the middle of Harmattan – period of year where you experience really warm (sometimes hot) and dry winds from over Sahara desert. Because of that we have tons of red dust flying around and covering everything. Streets are dirty, plants are dry and dirty, cars are dirty and our skin is getting extra dirty and dry really fast.

Here are some pictures of how things look like atm – enjoy:)

While we were absent 2 other things happened – one good and one bad;/

Remember Peace? Cute little doggy we have? Well she’s now proud dog – mother of 6 beautiful puppies. Bad news… is that their father Jupiter is dead:( While we were back home decision was made he has to be made hmm not able to have any more little dogs. They called pet doc… and he screwed his job… 2 or 3 days after surgery Jupi died. We will always remember him – not often one can meet such cheerful and friendly dog. I personally believed he was born to go and work in circus… now I can’t even take pictures what tricks he was able to do, including his main one – walking on two legs only!

Anyway here are pics of Jupi and his descendants.