New house and stuff;P

We finally changed our place of stay – and now it’s more than a month we are living in new place. New house is located about 10 minutes by car from our old one, but same time, length of our trip to town center is much faster – I would say, approx 30 minutes.

Anyway here is surprise for those of you who know and use google earth. You can find our home on their maps – pictures let you see, in good quality from about 500m, so it’s not bad. Big part of Accra has really good pictures in google earth - it's worth checking them out:) I will add some nice places from time to time so you can see them on google earth too.

Here are coordinates of our place:

Latitude: 5°38'47.92"N
Longitude: 0°14'1.15"W

You can easily find this place by adding new placemark (ctrl+shift+p) in google earth.

Side note: placemark will point on house with red roof. I’m getting coordinates from my GPS so I have no reason to think they are not accurate, but on the map I think our house is one next to “red roof” one – it’s house with dark roof. I can’t tell why there is such difference – I will try to get on our roof with laptop and check everything with mine own eyes.

Coordinates for our old house are:

Latitude: 5°39'22.66"N
Longitude: 0°14'44.80"W

But you will see that they take you to part of map where pictures are in much worse quality, making it impossible to see anything actually worth seeing.

Now something about the house. It’s smaller than the old one. It has 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 big halls and kitchen with small room for storage. It was recently renovated and being ones we are both quite pleased about it. It has two strong “features” old house did not have:

1. Solid mosquito nets in windows – haven’t seen mosquito inside our room since we moved in.
2. House has connection to water system – which means no more salty water from well, but sweet water whenever we want (yeah I wish – we had to buy polytank to store water for moments when pipes are dry as desert, which happens more often than we would like to)

Naturally there are some flaws of this place too. Just to name few: there are two churches located near our house – it’s sometimes hard to sleep when they are still doing something there abound midnight or even later! Two plots next to us are not leveled and after rain we have small lakes of water there, which gather tons of mosquitoes and other bugs, making it impossible to stay out in the evening. Finally there is nowhere near, small, cute shop where I could buy my beer (comforting comments appreciated).

Side note: another unpleasant thing, this time sponsored by Ghana government are power shortages. This means each 2 days we don’t have electricity – one time during day, other time during night (earlier it was once 3 days, than each 5 to end up once each 2 days). That’s really frustrating, I personally try my best to get used to it, but fail each time I have to sleep without air condition, or sit at home without possibility to use my laptop as long as I want.

This power shortage is caused by lack of power plants in Ghana, but that’s a long story to explain and I’m not sure I see whole picture behind this issue. So I will just stick to my naïve: “FIX DAMN POWER PLANTS”.

Below some pictures of our new house and surroundings:

View from the front and back.



1st hall



2nd hall and kitchen:)



Left and right side - view from the roof. On the right picture you can see part of polytank.

Closing this note I would like to say we again have malaria parasites in our blood – but that’s just boring so I won’t write more about it;P
Also next note is going to describe opening of chop bar we have been invited to. Expect nice pics, short movies and lots of real Ghana stuff:)
Till next time.

Short update

We are still somehow trying to set up everything after change of house:) So no big updates so far (although I have made some pics already:) ).

Anyway I have just added Guest Book for everyone visiting my site:)

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