Getting rather tired of cold showers and lumpy pillows, not to mention the noisy Bliss Nightclub! Don't these people ever sleep? And those that do are up at the crack of dawn catching taxis for work! Seemingly with cackling hens in tow....
Shai Hills – savannah grasslands, magical hills, ancestral caves, bats, wild deer – reminded me a little of parts of Zimbabwe countryside.
We then headed on, and found a new conference centre/restaurant called Hilbury.A family affair, owned and run by a father and son team, it is the smartest place we've seen here! Equal at least to somewhere found on the Camps Bay beach front, it has large gardens, a pool area, two restaurants and conference facilities. They are planning to add rooms at a later stage, and will definitely be charging above average rates! So if you're looking for 5 star treatment, try here. The owners are very fussy about good service, so they will not cater for anything larger than the staff can handle. (They did charge us for our drinks though, after a lengthy interview...)
The Palm Hotel, on the other hand, was at the end of a very potholed dirt road in a shabby area of town, but what a surprise! Advertised as "the best hotel in town", it wasn't too bad actually. I can't imagine many people going to the trouble to find it though.
Supper this evening was a very average but huge spaghetti bolognaise back at the Niagara Hotel, which in spite of sharing one serving we managed to waste a whole lot. Patrick is despairing; he can't accept the wastage so he's following us around polishing off all our leftovers...
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The first time I went to Hillbury and saw the still only pool in the area, I asked the waiters, how much costs the fee to the pool. They answered: one-fifty. Happy about the low price, I returned next day with some swimming-pants. When I handed them out the 1,50 cedis, they corrected me: it is fifteen!! They had meant 150'000 cedis in the old currency. So I refused and went on to the director to tell him that the price was too high, compared to other hotel pool in Ghana and to public outdoor pool in Europe. He said that they will think about it.
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