Ethiopia. What an amazing country. I've seen some amazing things and I can't believe it is one country. The north and south are so totally different. The south are so primitive and the government do nothing for them. The north is so historic and they get everything from the government and some rubbish roads. I'm soo happy to be leaving, the kids are relentless. In the south it is "you you money" or "photo 5birr". In the north it is "hello money" and they are mor...

After yesterday on the bus I wasn't too sure about it today. The first bus ran like clockwork. Left about on time, I had a good seat. No real problems and arrived on time. Then I had to make a connection from Waldia to Lalibela. As usual the bus didn't stop at the bus stop but somewhere in town so I had to take a bajaj to the station. The buses here don't leave on schedule, they go when they are full. This one took the longest, 3hr. By the time we got enough pas...

What a nightmare? I got a deal from some shady bloke in town for a ride to Mekele. That's what we do to try to avoid the bus station. It costs a little more but we are talking a couple of bucks. So he is supposed to pick me up at 6am. I'm waiting and thinking he has forgotten me and he showed up at about 6.20. He said the car is coming, and I know it is not a car but a mini bus. About 20min later a Baja (tuk tuk) came for me. He seemed to know just enough about m...

I flew to Axum I just couldn't face another 12hr bus ride to Shire, then overnight then short hop to Axum so I flew. My checkin bag got ransacked between check in and collection, lucky there is nothing of any value in it. The Africa hotel is the best room I have had so far. Big room, great bathroom with hot water, tv and dodgy internet. I'm up at 4am trying to post this. I went for walk yesterday and got followed buy 8 kids wanting me to buy them a "footaball"....

Well I've had better days. Thankfully Boy (my son) came through for me this arvo. I was up at 2am this morning with him trying to book a couple of airtickets. I have been trying for a couple of weeks but the internet is too slow here and it times out. Finally we have it sorted and I fly out of Ethiopianto Egypt on 27th. I also had some stuff to do this morning so I was busy especially trying to track down transport out of here. This arvo I finally got to see the...