Ups and Downs of Travel

On Tuesday night as we were flying to Accra, Kim and I decided that regardless of what the Libyan's say about our passports we were going to go!

Then we had to figure out our plan of attack. We knew there was an Air Malta flight from Frankfurt that would work for us, but we hadn't been able to book it online. First thing was to find a travel agent in Accra.

No one at our hotel in Accra (which as an aside didn't have our room reservation for last night, so after a bit of "discussion" they found one for us :) ) knew of a travel agent close, so we headed to the internet cafe to see if we could try booking online. I was on the internet and Kim went to ask the info desk if they knew of a travel agent close by. The clerk stood up and walked 5 steps and looked in an office and said "yes, right here". So Kim talked to him, but his system was down. I couldn't book it online. Then we decided to go for a walk to see if we could find another travel agent while the other guy tried to get his system back up and running.

We found an American Express travel agent. He had no luck finding anything for us that was less than $1600 each. A bit rich for us. We are poor by African standards remember!

Unwilling to give up, we went back to the hotel to try to call Air Malta directly. Couldn't get the phone to work. Back to the internet cafe to see about our travel agent. He was busy with someone else when we got there. There are phones available at the cafe so we decided to call Air Malta. Got through. Very bad connection. Called back. Got through. They found flights for us for $450 each. Much better. We are going. AND WE ARE PUMPED!!!! We sure hope the Libyans like us at the airport!!!

Off to Cape Coast, where we will relax for a couple days and then off to Libya.

Also, Accra has been very different (for the 12 hours we have been here) compared to the other parts of Africa. It seems quite prosperous and very modern. More on that later...

g&k