Christmas in Ghana - Part 2

From Elmina we took public transport again to Busua Beach, to check out a local surf school for a friend. 

We fell in love with Busua. We loved the friendliness of the people, the laidback vibe, the lovely children, the delicious food and the beautiful clean beach.

The main street of Busua. The little food place on the right is owned by a lady named Florence, who cooks the best pancakes and a mean egg sandwich. This is the local meeting place for breakfast, and lunch, and sometimes dinner...

We were so lucky to get a fabulous huge room with a private balcony, which became Neriah's play area. She spent many a nap here, in the breeze, and we loved watching the world go by from up here.

Neriah's awesome tent (thanks Aunty Kelly and Uncle Vlad!)

The view from our balcony

What a good wife, doing the laundry

While in Busua we rented a surfboard and while the surf was only little and quite dumpy, it was still a load of fun. I was stoked that I could still stand up after not surfing for 2 years. SUCCESS! We met some really cool Aussies and Americans as well. Busua has a few projects happening there, mainly tourism development and a few community programmes as well. 

Super cool Aussies - Claire and Alex

Sunset walk on the beach

Some of the local kids who fell in love with Neriah

My friends

Busua Beach - this is actually not the best photo. I promise the water was blue, and clean.

One of many swims for little Neriah. I wish I could have captured the one where Caleb had to hold her up to the sky and jump as a massive wave come. Oh my nervous heart.

We spent three nights here and then headed off to a private beach called Ezile Bay for a couple of nights. We actually loved Busua so much that we chose to go back there to spend Christmas. This time we stayed with an Italian guy who is currently building a new hotel. He had two finished rooms so we took one and kept him company.
We spent Christmas Eve singing Christmas carols and reflecting on the birth of Jesus, and woke up for pancakes and presents!  Our Christmas lunch consisted of plantain and yam chips with Ghanian stew, and our wonderful host Robbie cooked us a delicious Italian risotto for dinner. Mmm mmm.

Present time!

Num num

At Robbie's Place

We also wandered about a kilometre to the neighbouring village, Dixcove, another fishing village and home to Dixcove Castle, which also had dungeons for holding slaves before they were moved onto various places around the globe. A very sobering experience, particularly as we were the only ones visiting this place.

Looking down over the fishing boats