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We got home early yesterday morning. We flew from Addis to Dubai, had a layover there that included 5 hours sleep in an airport hotel – thank you Emirates Airlines! – then from Dubai to Sydney (14ish hours) on an A380-800 Airbus. My nephew (6 years) is a plane fanatic, and the A380 is his [...] On Monday we went out to Debre Libanos Monastery. We had a tour of the monastery and as we were coming out of the building, a funeral procession was entering the grounds. There were many people gathered around the coffin as it came in through the gates. Our girls wanted to know what was happening, [...] Yesterday we went on a trip out of town to Debre Libanos Monastery and the Portguese Bridge. These are on the road north to Bahir Dar. We had a driver and a tour guide, and the five of us piled in the back of a mini van. About half an hour out of Addis, our [...] A friend of ours had planned to visit us, and was supposed to be arriving last Tuesday. Unfortunately because his flight from Luxor to Cairo was delayed, he missed his flight on to Addis. The people in the Ethiopian Airlines office in Cairo didn’t seem terribly interested in helping him, making promises about getting back [...] We finished up at the school on Friday. I had two more author talks to do, which went well. They were for Grades 7 and 8, and in those classes there are some talented writers who were very interested. My bet is that one or two of them will become authors. My husband and I [...] Over the last few weeks I have been corresponding with a lovely lady who is part of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. She asked if I would be going to the Fistula Hospital at all. I was. She said that the ladies in her CWA group do a lot of charity work for various causes, [...] Yesterday my husband and I went to visit the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. (The girls were at school and my husband was happily granted permission to play hookey for a number of hours!) What a special place that is! I had wanted to visit for a very long time, having read both the books about [...] On the weekend we took a break and went away with some friends to Negash Lodge, near Wollisso about 1 1/2 hours south west of Addis. We left after Friday afternoon’s activities were complete, and then got stuck in traffic trying to leave Addis. Eventually we made it out of town. The road was thankfully [...] For those who love textiles, Ethiopia is a surprisingly rich place. Before we came here, I knew that Ethiopia had many different regional styles of cultural dress, but I really didn’t know what I might find in the way of embroidery. I was surprised to find that embroidery is easily found in Ethiopia, though you [...] There are of course some things that I will not miss about living in Addis: washing all our clothes by hand the lack of reliable electricity bleaching all our fruit and vegetables the taste of the drinking water the smog so many potholes in the road the smell of fruit street the breakfast cereals we [...] |
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