Hotel de Leopol International Addis Ababa

... to become even wider. After a couple of hours, we stopped to buy some bread. Somewhat jaded from Kenya, where hard bargaining for becomes horrible second nature, I started haggling with the small kid selling the bread. He seemed flustered, I was relentless…Finally, wee agreed on Br4 (equivalent or R3) for a really big loaf of bread. I waited for my change (trying to look tough) surrounded by a crowd of curious, but very polite onlookers. When my change returned, still ...

This morning we met for breakfast at 7:30 and Samuel was ready to take us to the CHK (Centre Hospitalier de Kigali) for our first board meeting of Smile Rwanda, which was to start at 9:30. Actually we hoped it would start at 10:00 but Greg gave 9:30 as the start time, since things never start at their officially given time. On the way to the hospital we stopped to change money. I had done the calculation at the Bloom where room ...

... the Gregorian one - so I turned my watch back to 2001 and stepped off the plane at around ten at night. I was lucky enough to spend the entire plane ride from Johannesburg talking to a wond**ful *****ian woman - we met each oth** on line trying to get our VAT back in Joburg and she then changed h** seat so she could sit with me for the 5+ hour flight. Against many odds, she'd started h** own tourism business in Lagos (recently expanded to two offices) and has dreamed of ...

Three of us went on a sightseeing trip around Addis. It was a bright sunny warm day as usual. We started at the National Museum which had been a residence of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. We saw his bedroom and bathroom and the Empress' quarters. The palace is now part of the University. The Museum is well worth seeing with several displays of life in the various regions of ...

... leaving 4 of us to sample Kitfo. Raw, tepid, minced beef and chilli. Sounds revolting and highly dangerous. Eating raw meat in Ethiopia surely can't be sensible, however no ill effects experienced. We wound up in the 'minibar' . A tiny pub which the 4 of us just about filled. Early start tomorrow, a 6.20am flight means a 3.30am rise and a taxi ride to the airport, followed by a 10 hour flight, a 3 hour time adjustment and a 4 hour car trip. Sounds wonderful.

... working Ethiopian father having lived through the desperation of the 1984 famine, an Ethiopian mother striving to raise her family of seven. But watching that game today and taking part in the celebrations, together we could all share the joy of victory, even if only for a moment. And had the result been different, we would have shared the ache of defeat. The distinctions of nationality, ethnicity, class, gender, and skin color that too often erect barriers ...

... housing among other things his throne, plus random archaeological artifacts, and the famous bones of "Lucy" the supposed missing link to the evolutionary development of homo erectus. Having a master's in Anthropology it was intriguing to come face-to-face with this renowned set of bones. That "link" hinges on its supposedly being the first upright walking ape to be discovered. How that is determined is by analyzing the manner in ...

... the Soviet system just ran out of steam and copies of the Victoria's Secret catalog got smuggled in giving the people an idea of what they were missing out on. Anyway, we learned that the man had been a former minister in the government and was now an attorney in private practice and the young woman was a representative from an American corporation trying to get a contract for some water reclamation project. Paul Theroux would no doubt have found out a lot more about the man ...

... Region, including the Danakil Depression. Our website (www.cangoafar.ca), is up and running and can provide you with the history of the Afar people, our organization's Mission Statement, information on the bio-sand water filters, our press releases, our fundraising efforts, etc... Stay tuned! Warren, Ahmed, Vicki, Jessika, Isla, Neville, Joan, Garnyl, Jamal, and Tara..