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Eating in Ethiopia Restaurant list for Addis, and recommendations for eating outside the capital. Please note that these are only a selection. Use Trip Advisor to search for the most popular. In Addis Ababa La Mandolin In an area called higher hullet – near Caravan Hotel. Great French cuisine. Tel 011 662 9482 – book […]
Every year we produce a calendar showcasing the Tigray and the Wollo communities. They start in September and end in August. This years calendar is now ready. If you have not seen it before it is a must for anyone living or working here, or interested to visit Ethiopia. 1/ See how the Ethiopian Calendar […]
As everyone living in Addis knows, now is the wedding season. From the end Timkat (marking the end of the harvest time) until the Lentan fast begins is the peak time to get married In Addis Ababa on weekends cavalcade after cavalcade goes past with ribbons decorating the cars and horns beeping in celebration. In […]
As the rainy season – the Kremt – begins to recede, Ethiopians prepare to celebrate their new year – saying goodbye to 2016 and hello to 2017. If you want to know about the why’s and wherefores of the Ethiopia’s unique calendar please check this earlier blog article. The New Year holiday falls on […]
For those of us in Addis the change in the weather has been noticeable in the last week. One of my favourite descriptive words in Amharic is ‘goom’ – ጉም – which describes the low cloud/ foggy weather which has started now. Along with a lot of rain over the last week, there is this […]