Having a visitor was a good opportunity to take a few days' leave and discover a new city. Headed to Kumasi with my cousin on a VIP bus, which was air conditioned and had loads of leg room. It took us two hours to get on a bus because tickets are only sold when a bus pulls in, so you are waiting indefinitely, and then just enough tickets are sold to fill up the bus and so on. It took us two hours to get on a bus. The journey to Kumasi takes you down the still being constructed Kumasi road, past the Achimota house, and means a bumpy ride. A test for any suspension! We were entertained on the bus with Nigerian soap operas. I managed to sleep for almost the entire journey, despite the bumpy ride and was stirred briefly only when the Nollywood actresses emitted particularly loud screams and exclamations! As an aside, Nigerian soaps are filled with intrigue, seduction and mass murder (at least half the cast is finished off in every episode), yet are strangely gripping!
Sitting across the aisle from us was a girl of about 2 or 3 called Ama. She sat really solemnly on her mum's knee for the entire journey, so Fee made her an origami flower and bird which greatly impressed both mother and daughter!
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