Friday, June 08, 2007

The Evergreen Garden Bar is our nearest Local




The bar is half-way between home and work and serves a number of functions. It is a pleasant shady courtyard with a well and a mango tree at its centre; we along with many others, including, hens and goats, have already passed many a relaxing hour under the ‘local networking mango tree’. We share the courtyard with a steady flow of colleagues and local residents who park their bikes, motorcycles and bottoms, like us, to seek a shady spot during the heat of the day, accompanied by the occasional ‘tonic’ or Gulder beer as refreshment. A few roasted peanuts, grown 100 metres away, from the stall nearby and a few mangoes from the tree above us serve to make this a most agreeable meeting place. The short walk home, we are learning to navigate our way under the starlit Ghanaian sky, helps us to recover our senses in preparation for the long Ghanaian night. We have a feeling that a few tales could revolve around this bar over the next couple of years.

1 comment:

Annie said...

This sounds lovely. Are you two learning any local languages or can you get by with English? The bike tale makes me want to ship our own bikes wherever we get our placement....or to become experts at fixing bikes. I hope we are able to have our own garden as well. That's so fantastic that they built your fence so quickly.

I hope we have luck in being nearer to an internet cafe.

Cheers.