Cape Coast Castle still standing and well visited by not only tourists but also a lot of the local Ghanaian’s has a lot of history to tell. It was a pity, however, as our tour guide who tried to tell us everything he knew was difficult to understand as he had very little teeth and kept turning his back to the group whilst speaking so no one could hear anything, but is was amazing to walk the grounds of the castle standing guard over the seas!

It is once you have completed the tour do you get a true sense of how mnay thousands of slaves came and went until slavery was banished.

Lined against some of the castle walls we read flower reathes remebering family long past but not forgotten. Many had returned having traced their roots back to the castle from around the world, North and South America, Barbados and the UK.

Walking around the castle did give you a sense of huge struggle and anguish of the slave trade. The symbolic doorway "Door of no return" where many slaves were taken away from family to lands far far away never to return.

Walking back through the doorway ourselves gave me a great sense of sadness and relief knowing it would only be tourists walking back and forth through this doorway.

Now time to head back to Big Milly’s.