March trip report

A reader writes: We flew out of Heathrow Friday, March 18 and stayed for two nights at Access Inn in Osu. I highly recommend it as a budget place- you can check out my reviews on TripAdvisor and Booking.com. It's a 5-6 cedi taxi ride from the inn to Oxford Street. The inn also provides airport …

Lome (Togo) trip report

Getting there from Accra is easy. Take a tro-tro from Tudu to Aflao (takes 3.5 hours), then you walk across the border and it's just a short trip into the centre of Lome.  Officialdom was painless (although a Ghana officer did ask Ian rather suspiciously why we were going to Lome, and implied that we should have …