Things we will MOST miss about Ethiopia 1. Our friends – beautiful people to whom we will always remain close. The warmth and hospitality of the Tekeba family will always stay with us, and the memory of the home cooked meals and coffee with which they welcomed us will always make our mouths water. 2. …
Jeff’s Work One of my main roles here has been to find trades which will bring some income and continuous sustainability to very poor families. Regular jobs in shops and cafes are taken by the owners’ family and friends, while jobs in banks, etc require an education and an ID document, neither of which poor…
Timket (Epiphany) is the biggest religious festival in Ethiopia with deep prayer and wild celebration. While Christmas is a family affair celebrated at home, Timket is definitely very public and Gondar has the most atmospheric Timket celebration in the country, centred around the venerable Fasilidas baths. The 3 day festival started with a parade of…
Content Timket: information 3 Day Festival The Ethiopian Church and Clergy Timket in Gondar dos and don’ts ************************************** Timket: information Although Timket is translated as Epiphany, the fact that both this Eastern Orthodox Christian and its Western Christian counterpart celebrate it in January and that they both give it the same name of Epiphany are…
Trekking Had we done our research properly, we would have seen on our favourite trek site http://www.walkopaedia.net that this mountain trek was considered “strenuous”, in other words way beyond our level of fitness. And so it proved! The treks each day were long and hard and also brought Sylvie a touch of altitude sickness. Of…
Gondar Town and Surrounds Some of the images of Gondar which will always stay with us: Donkeys everywhere carrying sand from the river to building sites as well as carrying tons of fleas; dogs without owners asleep in the road; carts and horses as a main form of transport after Bajaj/tuktuks and minibuses (there are…
A very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We have to wait a while to wish our Ethiopian colleagues and friends a Happy Christmas as Christmas here falls on 7th January. Timings here are out of kilter with the rest of the world. For a start, it is 2011 (seriously!)…if only we felt 7…
