Title: An Adventure in Addis (Ethiopia)

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Ethiopian Street Mate - 25/May/2010 05:26 - 5308 days ago
My colleague has offered to kidnap an Ethiopian husband for me. I have to choose between whether I want a rich one or one with n...
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Abey and friends - 18/May/2010 08:21 - 5315 days ago
Each year Abey and his classmates raise money from their fellow pupils and put on a huge feast for the homeless people that live...
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One more week to go… - 14/May/2010 06:10 - 5319 days ago
Until the 30th of May Foreign nationals are not allowed to travel around Ethiopia with out the approval of and a stamp from the ...
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The daily commute - 13/May/2010 06:10 - 5320 days ago
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Customer service - 06/May/2010 06:37 - 5327 days ago
A traffic policeman approached me when I was waiting to cross the road. I thought that he wanted to tell me off for not using th...
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toilets and cctv - 30/Apr/2010 10:20 - 5333 days ago
Breaking news is that the city council have realised that a quarter of Addis’ population do not have access to a toilet. W...
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Suspicious deaths - 28/Apr/2010 06:47 - 5335 days ago
The opposition have accused the government of politically motivated murder. There is a dispute as to the causes of the deaths, c...
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Do debates matter? - 23/Apr/2010 06:25 - 5340 days ago
They provide relief from the constant shoulder shaking dancing on ETV, but not that much. The ruling party spoke for what seemed...
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thoughts of food - 21/Apr/2010 06:38 - 5342 days ago
When I was little, for a week or two, I believed I only existed because I was in another person’s dream and I was petrifie...
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Cars and kissing - 20/Apr/2010 10:39 - 5343 days ago
Last week after the car rolled down the hill because someone had forgotten to put the break on, we sneaked out for a cup of tea...
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Why I hate it when it rains in Addis - 15/Apr/2010 06:04 - 5348 days ago
It’s because it is miserable, wet and cold. It’s because the streets turn into mud, and any road with a slight gradi...
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the flies - 09/Apr/2010 06:58 - 5354 days ago
There are posters of flies everywhere. I’m not sure what I thought they were for; some guerrilla marketing campaign or a ...
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travels with a flip - 07/Apr/2010 07:32 - 5356 days ago
The only footage of Lalibela after I accidentally deleted all my photos. The bus from Lalibela to Bahir Dar. ...
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Work - 25/Mar/2010 10:15 - 5369 days ago
It is difficult to describe how frustrating work can be, usually I can’t, I just end up squealing and stamping my feet, in...
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Oh what a beautiful morning… - 17/Mar/2010 08:19 - 5377 days ago
At 6.15 this morning I was being sick in an open sewer on the outskirts of Addis. While concerned Ethiopians wondered what on ea...
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the right to silence - 15/Mar/2010 07:35 - 5379 days ago
Everyone substitutes yes  with a sharp in take of breath. Women whisper, sometimes I wonder how the taxis know when to stop for...
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the tej bet - 05/Mar/2010 05:58 - 5389 days ago
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Jimma - 04/Mar/2010 05:47 - 5390 days ago
Jimma is on the way to Gambella and the border with Sudan. It is a centre for coffee, mud, rain, mosquitoes and serial murders ...
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What I learnt last week - 03/Mar/2010 06:06 - 5391 days ago
  That it is impossible to storm angrily down a street in Addis. Not because it has some kind of karmic power of resolution b...
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Danger wire - 25/Feb/2010 05:25 - 5397 days ago
The Orange shop was broken into the other week and all the mobile top up cards and tins of powdered milk were stolen. I also cam...
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the great fast - 24/Feb/2010 10:05 - 5398 days ago
Orthodox Ethiopians began fasting for Easter over two weeks ago;  not eating meat, fish, milk, eggs or cake. The siga bets (mea...
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February - 11/Feb/2010 05:21 - 5411 days ago
As usual everything conspires to breakdown, run out or disappear at the same time. Our night guard (who I’m not convinced ...
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Rain - 10/Feb/2010 05:34 - 5412 days ago
It’s been raining since Sunday evening. Everything is coated in a matt gloss of mud, including my trousers and shoes. Bu...
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The Bale Mountains - 03/Feb/2010 10:30 - 5419 days ago
  At times when the mist came down, it looked like the North Yorkshire Moors, but then we’d pass a shepherd wearing pink ...
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Sausages - 01/Feb/2010 06:03 - 5421 days ago
The man who was in charge of the Urban Agriculture project (which provides allotments for women with HIV/AIDs, to grow fresh veg...
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Apathetic voting - 29/Jan/2010 06:31 - 5424 days ago
According to the annual British social attitudes test, people (in Britain) are more tolerant and more Conservative but less incl...
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Crime and punishment - 25/Jan/2010 07:42 - 5428 days ago
A friend of a friend was late for a business appointment, he was driving too fast and not wearing a seat belt. He was stopped by...
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Timket - 22/Jan/2010 11:27 - 5431 days ago
Tuesday was Timket or in English Epiphany, so difficult to say apparently that the finance director refused to attempt it and we...
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Things I’ve recently learnt - 21/Jan/2010 07:05 - 5432 days ago
That when the Derg were purging the palace during the revolution, Hailie Selassie’s officials had to attend daily callenet...
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Talk! Sit! Come! Get in! Get out! Eat! - 15/Jan/2010 08:14 - 5438 days ago
I am trapped in a never ending game of Simon Says, without the Simon Says bit or the prizes for getting it right. British people...
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New Years Eve - 14/Jan/2010 05:14 - 5439 days ago
It is still 2002, so officially there was no New Years Eve or New Years Day and unofficially we were all in bed by 10.30pm (4.30...
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A christmas cracker - 13/Jan/2010 07:26 - 5440 days ago
(Ambo is the fizzy water in Ethiopia) ...
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The pilgrims and the elephant - 13/Jan/2010 05:29 - 5440 days ago
My friend has a taxi driver who knows a Doctor (of animals) who tracks Ethiopian elephants in a national park near Harar. So we ...
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Christmas - 23/Dec/2009 06:00 - 5461 days ago
The sun’s disappeared, I’ve been wearing my hat inside the office pretending it is snowing outside and unintentional...
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Alisa - 22/Dec/2009 05:23 - 5462 days ago
Alisa attended a catering course run by the organisation that I work for. She set up a kitchen/cafe with friends up the road fro...
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Friday night in Addis - 21/Dec/2009 05:24 - 5463 days ago
Girl in a bar (who’ve I’ve never met before, her hand grabbing hold of my neck): I really need to talk to you, will ...
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My first Ethiopian film - 17/Dec/2009 10:39 - 5467 days ago
We know the editor and tenuously through her the director and lead, her brother, so I might be a little bias. But it was great, ...
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Independence day - 15/Dec/2009 06:26 - 5469 days ago
I’m a huge supporter of the downfall of colonialism, mostly because self-determination returned to people and countries wh...
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What I learnt last week - 14/Dec/2009 08:01 - 5470 days ago
That sadly a trip to the Danakil depression, lava fields and volcanoes might not be possible due to mines, bandits and kidnappin...
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