When the journey visits you at home!

  Within not even six weeks after our travel to Ethiopia, we are visited by Samuel from Adigrat. We got to know Samuel in Adigrat, more or less just because he invited us for lunch at his home. Samuel and his wife Genet were extremely hospitable and we were integrated by them in no time at […]

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Farewell Ethiopia …

  Nearly four weeks have passed and now, the moment to say goodbye has come. The pick up is waiting to bring us to Mekelle. I hate saying goodbye! I still do and am sure I will never learn it … Let’s get over this quickly! … After far too many goodbyes we, finally, hit the road. […]

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Faces of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country with over 80 nations and cultures. Naturally, these differences are mirrored in the faces of the people you meet on the road. We think that Ethiopians are extremely beautiful … actually, Anouk complained about her “pink” complexion – she wants to be as brown and beautiful as the people we met. […]

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Adigrat Photo Safari – A walk from the kindergarten to the market

One morning, we walk from the kindergarten to Adigrat’s main market place not taking a Bajaj  to simply take in some more impressions. School children who have “afternoon shift” sitting over some homework – right next to the kindergarten’s gate. Near the main road, children herd the sheep – rural life in the middle of Adigrat. […]

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Coffee the slow way – The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

  Many Overlanders seem to be discussing about how to prepare really good coffee on the road as we figured out from a lot of other traveller`s blogs at the moment. We don`t drink too much coffee, so we do it the “slow way” whenever we want to have it! Here is how it goes!   As […]

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A trip to Hawzen and Juliane’s “Initiation”

We’ve been in Ethiopia for only a few weeks so far and we feel that it’s hard to put all the experiences and stories into the proper words.At the evening of Anouk’s birthday, we went out for dinner to the Agoro Lodge in Adigrat together with Desta. Even though we were together with Ethiopians only […]

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Impressive Community in Impressive Isolation

After a far too long day with an African authority-jungle in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray province (administrative tasks for the kindergarten, changing our flight tickets), we are picked up at 5:30 pm to go on our long expected trip to Desta’s mountain village Zikallay. It’s far too late by now, because sunset […]

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Winter in Ethiopia

This winter, we don’t travel somewhere “just for fun”, but dedicate our winter holiday to about 100 boys and girls from the poorest Ethiopian families, who get the chance to go to a kindergarden organised and financed by the Ethiopian/German NGO Adigrat Vision e.V. Our flights are booked and on the 20th December we’ll leave […]

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Ethiopia – Our First Impressions

  Preparing for Africa? You can’t really do so! Many things will most certainly come totally unexpected! The only way is to experience it … and it’s going to be intensive experiencing from the very first few moments there. Surprising is how things simply “happen”. Ethiopia is… Waiting in line with no obvious reason – but […]

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Mama Africa

  Here we go: we’ve made it to Addis Ababa (via Jeddah) and are really looking forward to our NGO-experience in Ethiopia. As you may have read on Facebook, we’ve had some problems getting to Frankfurt, because we live in – more or less – “German Outback”. Our home is on a really small island in […]

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New Bits ‘n’ Pieces

In this post, we are simply presenting some updating bits and pieces to you … (so, no photos, I’m afraid!) Of course, as in not more than ten days, we will be in Ethiopia, we are getting very excited about that. The flights to Addis Abeba and then to Mekele are booked and so are the transfers […]

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