Friday night at the Showcase

March 4th 2008
We invited all our VSO friends round for dinner and a film on Friday, Al downloaded Sweeney Todd before we left the UK. We were all quite excited (well some of us anyway) as it had good reviews in the UK, and Al promised a red carpet and popcorn. Marta made some lovely, lovely food for us - cabbage and potatoes, salad, shiro, it really was very tasty, everyone was very impressed, it’s a shame Ma ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia

Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more

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Al Mercer & Sara Hassen

Al and Sara

Hi - this is Al & Sara's blog! We are 2 VSO volunteers working in Assosa, Beneshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia for 2 years from Feb 2008 to 2010. Don't try to find us on the map, 'cos we don't appear. We are proud to announce a grand total of 0 entries in the Lonely Planet - Ethiopia & Eritrea and um, 0 entries in the Bradt guide. In fact as an "emerging region" within Ethiopia our area is pretty anonymous both internally and (clearly) internationally. With the mud strip airport being relaid with tarmac we had a 2 day 4x4 journey here from Addis. That said, Assosa is a regional capital, has a p... full info

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