Hanging in the Rift
So I finally got a chance to go out to the Rift valley this weekend - although it wasn't really intentional. We were supposed to be on a flight to…
FGM
Girl(fairly senior in an NGO here): FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is very common around these countries because there are a lot of Muslims here. Me: ? What does Muslim have to…
Blog posts flood
Don't worry - it ain't an error somewhere - i just haven't been able to get proper access to my blog for the past couple weeks and that's why they all went…
Ethiopian Calendar and Clock
Woo- hoo! I'm seven years younger out here! According to the Ethiopian Calendar (based on the Coptic Calendar), it is only 1999 here and their new millenium celebrations are on September 27th,…
Mon deuxième blog en francais…
Je n'aime pas des chiens! Hier, je suis allé a la maison d'un ami pour du cafe. Elle a deux chiens - deux grande (avec grandes dents et claws )…
Bahir Dar
In my opinion (and as usual against the norm), this place I took a minibus from Gondar to Bahir Dar which was decent enough - only a 3 hour…
Africa’s Camelot
So maybe the Lonely Planet romanticises this place a bit by calling it Africa's Camelot, but it also is much better than I was led to believe by other expats. …
Lalibela
Everything in Ethiopia is sold as 'Ethiopia's version' of something else. Lalibela is Ethipia's Petra and if the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and the Sydney Opera Centre (?? really??)…
Football Fanatics…
Champions League quarter final games were last night and I went with some colleagues to the nearest place showing the game. The main room was packed - not a seat…
Book Review: The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning
This is the first book published by the IIS that I've read - actually, it is the first one that I've I've tried reading a couple of other ones before…