The rather weary traveller

I’ve been bad at blogging recently, haven’t I? Apologies- I’ve actually been rather busy. I’ve travelled to Accra (Ghana), Lusaka (Zambia) in the last week and I’m writing this in KL (Malaysia). All that travel and hotel breakfasts has left me rather bewildered and short of time.

Africa was a fantastic experience, if you can ignore the chaotically bad organisation from some of my colleagues. Which I can’t, but I won’t bore you with my gripes. Zambia in particular was quite a surprise with Lusaka reminding me of Canberra of all places. I’d go back to both Ghana and Zambia again given the chance. Right now I’m on the 23^rd floor of a typically clean and soulless but competent Asian hotel. KL, like Singapore, is a place that it’s hard to have any real opinions of at all. Mind you, after a week in places with bags of character in Africa, it’s nice to have somewhere where it’s safe to eat the fruit and where I’ve not brought my own supply of medical sharps in case of emergencies (HIV rates sadly being what they are in Africa).

The photo is a picture I took of my class in Accra: over 100 very pleasant and hard working ACCA students who I was hopefully helping in their attempts to pass auditing exams. These students deserve a better future, given their attitude and hard work. It’s nice to be able to help in this, especially as I was being paid to be there!

I’ll get back to the usual opinionated drivel soon. Please keep watching this space and leaving the odd comment.