(NB This was written in November 2012, much could have changed) Addis Ababa Museum is up a long flight of steps and the gate and sign identifying the museum, which you can’t see, at the top are peeled and decades past their best. The neighbouring Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum is at street level and […]
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(NB This visit was in November 2012) As Addis Ababa is quite a full-on city, I thought that perhaps the most effective way to reflect that would be to kind of list things as they come to me in terms of what I saw walking about. Dust. Potholes so big you could lose a herd
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I am writing this (November 2012) with what is hopefully the tail end of the most virulent case of diarrhea I have ever had, so it’s safe to assume there were some issues, though I’m going to attempt not to let this affect my comments on the food and drink we had. Overall, for the
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I wrote this before I flew to Addis Ababa (in November 2012), my naive thoughts on what “Ethiopia” triggered and what I expected: Famine, Band Aid, Abyssinia, Abyssinian cats wandering about, dusty, smell of coffee everywhere, shacks, no high rise buildings, colourful, frenetic markets, food sellers on the street, people sitting on the sides of
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