Diary for Skiing in retirement


News from Abyssinia

2014-10-31 to 2014-11-03

Day 3 in Ethiopia, having had a 24 hour stop-over in Nairobi.  This was not part of the original plan. Long story short - our connecting flight from Madagascar was cancelled so we re-negotiated our itinerary with Air Mad.  To ensure we did not miss our connection, this meant an upgrade to Business Class on Air Kenya and overnight accomm. in Nairobi.

We used our time in Kenya to visit the Karen Blixen Museum before being returned to airport for on-ward to Addis.

A day at leisure in Addis, so self-guided walking tour of the city and main tourist sites: a church and a museum.  Addis is not a place to stay long in: its largely a building site.  However, we survived on our own and found a 'traditional' Ethiopian restaurant near our hostel (Mr Martin's Cozy Place) for our first tast of injeera - though were not especially taken with it.

Many travellers tales were told in the hostel of pickpocketings and muggings, so was with some relief that we joined the rest of our group.  We have this morning flown from Addis to the city of Gondar, from where I send this message - but because its at in internet cafe, there are no photos to share.  But there will be!

Tomorrow we drive into the mountains and then we will be on trek for 6 days.

Adios