No shortage of shortages

As I have been coming to Tamale for years, I have been confronted with it on a daily basis, but there is definitely a difference between the experience of coming here as a 'visitor' or as 'someone who tries to run a business'.

Unbelievable, no day goes by without us being confronted with the shortage of one product or another. Try to run a restaurant when the first week there is no water coming out of the pipes, the following week the electricity is down for two days (making it difficult for freezers to keep things frozen, for example) and the next week there is no beer to be found in the whole city.

Proba.. err, definitely the best beer in the world!

Picture taken from Miami New Times

From one chauvinistic article to the next, it should be fairly obvious now that I am a full grown Belgian.

The Lonely Planet has published its list of the 10 best beers in the world. It is interesting that none of the beers comes from any of the traditional beer countries. Not one Belgian beer? You mean, not even one?