Had a trip to Accra, toilet truck wasn't working ground crew dumped **** out onto tarmac. Set the tone for the next two days. Hotel had beer rationing, could only order in room and only recieve an opened bottle, limited to two beers. Water in hotel was off so had to use what had been saved in bath, pretty scungy, to flush loo, on entering the room it was obvious that last occupant hadn't bothered, staff left that to me. Bed initialy had no sheets on and it looked like numerous virgins had been deflowered on it.Balcony sported a rooster who seemed to think it was his. We went to the zoo and proudly shown a lot of empty cages. "In this one there used to be a lion, and here is where we used to have the pygmy hippopotamus.... 4 out of 7 crew got food poisening at the restraunt we went to, we couldn't face the idea of eating at the hotel. At least it was a major attack of the !!!!s with attendent nausea.
We were delighted to be able to leave and I haven't been back, it could have just been they were having a bad day but I wasn't keen to have another try.
Funnily enough I still rate that as worse than being chucked inside by Idi's soldiers in Uganda after I landed there just after the Israeli raid, though the consequences could have been much worse, probably because I was so fr....ng terrified I blanked most of that one out.Didn't get the !!!!s there but that was probably because they didn't feed us. Crew were pretty pleased to leave there as well. Beautiful place otherwise.