Nov 13 - In Addis

We flew Ethiopian Airlines, which were good except for the inflight movies. I had a rather difficult man sitting behind me, who managed to kick me in the back every time I was about to doze off. But Sue, unusually, managed to sleep. Overall a good flight. And 75 minutes early arriving at Addis.

This is an airport to make Heathrow jealous.

We got our visas in a few minutes and lost about 60 seconds in the passport control. No one asked us if we were terrorists, or if we had come to the country to kill any important people. NSA, if you are reading this, and I expect you are, maybe you could leak these comments to the US Immigration Service?

As you see from the pic, this is not our usual 10 Kg backpack holiday. Tess has given us a long list of things to bring, and anyway we have a base where we can leave things in Addis while we travel around Ethiopia.

Best of all was arriving in Addis and having our own friendly travel guide.

Worse of all was finding rain here, in the middle of the dry season.

We took it easy on our arrival day, and on the 2nd day went off to do culture, e.g. the National Museum.

Where we met Lucy.

Or at least what they found of her.

Entering Tessa's Palace

Finally, a drink in a 10th floor bar overlooking the evening city.