Guidebook

We went to Ghana this past weekend and I will be writing more about that as time goes on. For now, just to say that despite it being only a 45 minute flight away, it felt like another world.

We had a guidebook from the Bradt series. It was a little useful, but the target audience may have not been us. There is this puzzling fixation on pizza. A typical entry might be like this:

Koforidua: don't take the advice of the local touts and get on the ferry right away. You will be missing the best pizza in the Eastern Region around the corner at Lionhead's.

or

Cape Coast: just past the Mr. Biggs on Oxford street there is an unsigned alley leading to P.G.'s, the pizza here is not to be missed.

or

Elmina: The first roundabout on the Accra road east from the castle features a column with the crab symbol of the local Asafo company and is also home to as fine a pizza as will be found in the area.

Now maybe it's just me, but I'm not in West Africa for the pizza. This whole idea of traveling to far off places and then searching for reminders of home I find just baffling. Let your new found friend whack open a fresh coconut and enjoy a refreshing drink.