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Adventure to Addis
... little stores lined up on a long street. Wanted to buy some handmade material, a colourful flat basket and some coffee. After some looking and haggling (mainly from Messfin) bought a few baskets, table cloth and some scarves. Next shopping experience was at the maraketo - the biggest market in Africa I am told. To get there was an experience in itself. If I was driving I would of turned around and driven the other way.. Fast. But Messfin slowly slowly ...
Arrival in Addis Ababa
... our luggage scanned again (why???) we discovered that the man who would have been holding the "Roberton Family" sign wasn't there. I went outside to look for him and wasn't allowed back in the building. The teenagers in uniform (with Kalashnikovs) insisted that I went with them to another entrance. They explained that there wasn't a problem, but seemed a little annoyed when I explained that there was a problem, and that I wasn't leaving my wife and children alone in ...
Welcome to Addis Ababa
... The hotel rep quickly admonished me for not stopping by the hotel desk on my way out of the airport; I explained I was told I'd have a driver waiting for me. He made a clucking noise, or a tsking noise, with his tongue and was on his phone calling the hotel shuttle bus. Within a few minutes, I was packed into a large van and on my way. Thankfully, the hotel was only minutes away from the airport. The hotel staff, who had been expecting me ...
New Flower
... finally let me into the passenger lounge…which was a relief, because I could not get (nor would I want) a Saudi visa on arrival. To their credit, however, they did apologize for the delay and gave me a complimentary rotisserie chicken dinner.
It wasn’t until 3AM that I walked into my hotel, and as I expected, access to the internet was all but non-existent, and of course, my phone had zero service. But at that point, I was just happy to ...
Face to Face with wild African animals!
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... of weeks with some great friends of mine I met here in Ethiopia. I also mentioned them in an earlier entry. From Madrid my plan is to fly to Panama City, Panama where I ended my trip in January 2008. From there...hmmm?? Stay tuned! P.S I want to thank all of you again for reading my blog. I was notified in email by www.travelpod.com they chose my blog to be featured on their main page. It won't be immediately but sometime in the near future it's going to be ...
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