Coffee culture taken to the extreme

Ethiopia is hailed (especially by itself) as the birthplace of Coffee. The main export is Coffee and the main drink is coffee. There are literally hundreds of small cafés in Addis and every town has at least one coffee including an Italian made professional espresso machine

Welcome to Ethiopia

September 16th 2008
Why Ethiopia The reason why we are in Ethiopia starts with a visit to a Colombia shop a few years back. In this store I stumbled over the bored husbands section where the shop provides a few seats, a coffee table and a coffee table book. Not being a bored husband but curious I picked up the book and you guess right it was about Ethiopia. It looked like a great country (as all countries d ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Addis Ababa Region » Addis Ababa

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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