Sometimes there are mornings with croissants and coffee.

I've been going on-and-off for breakfast into Osu, the tourist neighborhood of Accra, for quiet some time now. Just getting a pastry and a milky drip espresso coffee makes my early mornings. There's the cafe above Koala--the genius tourist grocery store owned by some profiteer Lebanese--that has some fancy Turkish coffee and a wax pirate. The pirate was purchased because it was "very European" as one ex-pat Arab told me. Then there's always the Osu food court; a sad, sad place that covers the "Inn" market, with three restaurants and a cafe entitled, "Creamy Inn", "Pizza Inn", and "Chicken Inn". These pricey cafe places are all fine and dandy, but nothing really does beats the $.10 street tea with sugar and condensed milk in the early hours.

picture: "Ebrone girl, Can you take my picture? My picture?"--Bread girl at the "Inn".