Rohin Abroad

One of the first things that really struck me in Ghana were the roads although I'm yet to mention these. In the car I got physically struck by the horrendous bumps however the thing that caught my attention were the fumes. In the EU we have very strict regulations on automotive emissions with a very current conscious effort being put into reducing them. It seems so pointless though when you see what goes into the air from the vehicles here. The world would be far less polluted if they worked on reducing emissions here and all over Africa/South America. Let's say they made cars for poorer people, with reduced emissions and sold them well.  I'm confident that this would make a much more significant impact than the incremental change we have from the current cars in the EU. However this isn't nearly as profitable so I don't expect to see any change soon. Also the only cars that are here are Japanese or German. I haven't seen a single French car - I won't be...

It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, until you have gone to the rainforest and played football, you haven't played football in the rain. When you struggle to see 5 metres in front of you, that's when you know you're cool. In all honesty, I was so hot and sweaty, the rain was a very welcome change. I apologise if you're not into football but I'd like to mention the discrepancies between the English and Ghanian game. The first thing that really struck me as different and oddly different at that, is the way Ghanian people deal with time. Or rather how they don't deal. They have no conception of time. None whatsoever. This means when asking the referee how long left is in the game, the reply is simply a shrug of the shoulders. Moving on to the pitch. In the Premier League there are a set of dimensions that pitches have to comply with. While obviously the pitches here aren't measured with the precision of the professional teams, I have n...

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog! It has been 3 days since I flew out and despite the short time period, there are so many new things that I've seen. I don't really know how to blog so I'll attempt a monologue of parts of my head? First thing I'd like to address - passport control. Imagine you've just spent a couple of weeks relaxing on holiday and you're back at Heathrow in the passport control queue having landed. You can hear the general British public muttering about the length of the queue and what a waste of time it is. PLEASE, visit Ghana and tell me that the queue took a long time. They want your address when the Ghanian government willingly accept that there aren't real addresses!? Then they need to scan all of your fingers and ask you questions on your trip. Add a stuffy hall and mosquitoes and you have the right idea. Don't get me started on the queue pushers. I flew to Accra and my accommodation is about a 3 hour drive from the airport....