Cold Beer

Ethiopian Mountains

We made it thru to the Ethiopian border with a great incentive of cold beers!! Sudan allows NO alcohol. And, promptly on crossing the border … not even thru immigration … we were offered cold beers. We enjoyed cold, clean, refreshing showers at the local brothel and got an introduction to the Ethiopian swarms surrounding our camp who are perfectly content in staring us down for hours on end … and this for the next 19 days!!! Campsites get surrounded by a rope – within which we camp – and the onlookers flood in very quickly to merely surround our circus and stare till well after sunset – when their mommies expect them home. By the time we rise in the morning – the swarm has returned and simply stands and stares for hours at end.

Daryl in Ethiopia

I found a scale at the truck stop/border crossing and clocked in several kilos lighter … roughly 88kg. The full mirror in my hotel room here in Gondar was also interesting … definitely changing shape slightly … sorry no measuring tape as yet to update measurements.