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28 April, Thursday Lalibela to Bahir Dar - Lake Tana

5/3/2011

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  28 April, Thursday   Lalibela to Bahir Dar

We go for breakfast at my friend Martha’s little coffeehouse/restaurant. We cause quite a stir when we arrived with the packed vehicle in the narrow little street. Andrej and Willie have pancakes – real pancakes -  with banana and honey and it is delicious. Hugo and I have fir-fir, which turns out to be scrambled eggs with bread – also very tasty. Martha wants us to stay for a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. We have far to go and I am sad that we cannot stay, because an invitation to a ceremony is a sign of friendship or respect: For the coffee ceremony freshly cut grass are spread on the floor to bring in the freshness of nature. The ceremony starts with the roasting of the coffee beans on a small, charcoal stove. The beans are then grinded before being brewed. When ready, the coffee is served in tiny cups with plenty of sugar. Popcorn is often passed around to compliment the ceremony which can last from 40 minutes to 3 hours.

I meet Martha’s dad and they give each one of us a cross as a gift before we leave. We exchange addresses and I sincerely hope that we will be able to stay in contact. A memory we will treasure which started with a random meeting in the street.

Bahir Dar lies on he shore of Lake Tana – the source of the Blue Nile…?

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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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