We were warned the border crossing from Ghana to Togo could be quite time consuming, but in reality it wasn’t too bad! It took about 2.5 hours all up and we managed to pass that time eating “Fan-Ice” and a hearty hour or so of Four Square which, yes, in this humidity and heat was pretty damn hot but we played in the shade of a building and thought all up we were probably the same heat as had we been sitting still sweltering in the truck. The capital, Lome, is really, really close to the border, well – guess it would have to be - this thin finger of a country is only about 56km wide on the golden sand coast. We were staying at Chez Alice, 12km east of the city and we were
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