It's Me Again

This weekend I didn't do to much. Yesterday we went to a hotel and swam in the pool there, it was great. While I was swimming, I thought I recognized some of the songs that they had playing, but not quite. The "The Gambler" came on, ya, they had Kenny Rogers playing. It eventually turned into Dolly Parton, Shania Twain then James Blunt. But no Celine Dion, which was suprising, you hear her everywhere.

If you listen closely, you can hear it.

I've talked about the drivers here, but not about how you get around. There are taxi's everywhere, but there are 2 different types of taxi's. Line (or share) taxi's and drop taxi's. Share taxi's drive around to the different junctions around town. They don't leave one juction until their taxi is completely filled up with 4 people. But the price is fixed and is relatively cheap. (20 - 40 pesewas) (1 Ghana Cedi is equal to about $.73 CAD, pesewas = cents). Drop taxi's are more expensive (3-7 Cedi's depending on how far you go) but drop you off exactly where you want to go, and don't pick up anyone else. So when there is a whole bunch of us wanting to go somewhere we sometimes find a drop taxi and get taken exactly where we want to go. Sometimes there are six of us, so we all just squeeze into one taxi, its a tight squeeze, and these Hjelte hips don't help any, but we make it.

Or you can take a tro-tro, which is the cheapest, but most uncomfortable. They are almost like a line taxi, but with a lot more people and you can get dropped off wherever you tell them to stop, and can get picked up anywhere you see one. But they do drive from juction to junction. And they are the cheapest (usually 20 - 30 pesewas).

When I go to work I catch a line taxi, just a short walk from where I live, to the next juction, then walk down the street for maybe 10 minutes to work. It usualy takes me 20 minutes about to get to work in total.

Well, I tried to post some pictures, but apparently it didn't work, oh well, maybe next time.