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  1. Gondar Today, Gone Tomorrow

    Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 7 January 2012

    Tales of Camelot are ingrained into the minds of nearly every romanticist. The splendour and intrigue, set among the pageantry of castles and courtyards, have made for the setting of novels and scripts throughout the ages.

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  2. Africa Hash 2011, Ethiopia – Shoulder shimmying in Gondar

    Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 20 November 2011

    Secure in the knowledge that Ethiopia is one of the safest African countries for a woman to travel independently, I’d mentally prepared to spend the rest of the fortnight travelling on my own. But I’m glad I didn’t; I couldn’t have wished for better travelling companions and, to be honest, there was no escaping the [...]

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  3. It’s Just Up There, Burning

    Blog: Where the road goes - 15 March 2010

    Journalism is nothing if not the beautiful license to find stories. Beautiful ones, tragic ones, ones that make you think. Sniffing them out like some sort of literary bloodhound and bringing them back, tail wagging. What happens to afterwards at the hands of the editor doesn’t bear thinking.  But the hunt is good fun.  In [...]

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  4. The Beginning of the End

    Blog: Where the road goes - 21 December 2009

    I’ve been in Ethiopia for almost two weeks now. It’s been a delicious downtime from constant traveling up to this point – a chance to stop thinking about Cairo, about endings, about the fact that nothing lasts forever. But this morning it will be time to move on. To Metema at the edge of Ethiopia [...]

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