Rendezvous in KumasiThe time came to drive to Kumasi, the goal of this part of the trip, to visit our daughter Janne who does an internship on a primary school in Kumasi, the biggest city in Ghana. The road from Elmina to Kumasi was OK but it took almost seven hours to drive 250 km because of the many giant speed bumps and countless police checkpoints. They always stop us because also the police never saw a car like this. Today I had to show my driver's license about 15 times, but no real problems. Sometimes discussions, for instance because they think we got false Ghanaian plates (also yellow). Then, in the late afternoon we arrived at the New Destin Education Centre. (destineducationcentre.com) It was happy rendezvous. Janne and Nathalie just had finished their lessons and together with a few children they showed us around. We met most teachers and a lot of the almost 400 children! The next day we joined a few lessons, it were their last lessons in their internship of three months. After the last lesson we went to the market. Next week they will fly back home. We met Eugene, the Dutch-Ghanaian founder of the school, and a part of his family. Fantastic man, fantastic family where the girls found a good and safe place to stay. After two nights it was already time to leave Kumasi. It was a full day driving to guesthouse Bigmillys, Kokrobite, near Accra. Here we leave the car for about seven weeks before we will continue our trip, driving a CX to Africa. We spend our last two days at the coast again, cleaning, packing and relaxing. The CX got a high pressure cleaning including the interior! That's the way they do it in Africa.... To be continuedThe car performed very well just a few small repairs. The CX used 340 liters of petrol in 3750 km, which isn't too bad for an old heavily loaded car designed in the seventies, driving mostly on bad roads with lots of stopping and accelerating.
The 26th of January we will fly back to Accra and hope to drive the CX back to Banjul, maybe via Guinea and Sierra Leone. Especially in Ghana the people really loved the car. Everywhere we in Ghana people shouted to us: I love your sports car!
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