It’s an early morning start and soon the 
gravel road makes way for tarmac.
The short stretch from Meteme to Gondor (233 km) has taken about 12 hours to cover during which we get an impression of life in rural Ethiopia. Small children (3 to 6 yrs.) herd the livestock. Children aged 6+go to school. You see them carrying school books all day as here a two shift school system is operated to overcome the lack of school buildings. There is no school bus everybody walks. The role of the men seems to be to work the fields. It was harvest time and crops and grass were cut with an sicle, fields were prepared with a wooden ox drawn plough. Women you see heading to the market in distant town carrying heavy loads.
The roads are rough and the borgi starts to play up. We stop for a while and we make so friends with the local armed gangsters, really they are protecting their cattle. The Borgi ....turns out it was a blocked fuel filter!
Anyhow for our bad road suffering we are rewarded when we spot the Dashen Brewery just outside of Gondor. A guided tour is quickly arranged which is rounded up by more than one round of the delicious Dashen cellar beer, burger and chips.
Finding our accomodation, the Belegez Pension, is easy as lots of people offer their “help“ to take us there. Getting rid of them is much harder. The Belgez Pension is perfect as we can park Erwin in an enclosed court yard (next to a white UN vehicle). Gondor with ist splendit castles and churches is well worth a visit.
gravel road makes way for tarmac.
The short stretch from Meteme to Gondor (233 km) has taken about 12 hours to cover during which we get an impression of life in rural Ethiopia. Small children (3 to 6 yrs.) herd the livestock. Children aged 6+go to school. You see them carrying school books all day as here a two shift school system is operated to overcome the lack of school buildings. There is no school bus everybody walks. The role of the men seems to be to work the fields. It was harvest time and crops and grass were cut with an sicle, fields were prepared with a wooden ox drawn plough. Women you see heading to the market in distant town carrying heavy loads.
The roads are rough and the borgi starts to play up. We stop for a while and we make so friends with the local armed gangsters, really they are protecting their cattle. The Borgi ....turns out it was a blocked fuel filter!Anyhow for our bad road suffering we are rewarded when we spot the Dashen Brewery just outside of Gondor. A guided tour is quickly arranged which is rounded up by more than one round of the delicious Dashen cellar beer, burger and chips.
Finding our accomodation, the Belegez Pension, is easy as lots of people offer their “help“ to take us there. Getting rid of them is much harder. The Belgez Pension is perfect as we can park Erwin in an enclosed court yard (next to a white UN vehicle). Gondor with ist splendit castles and churches is well worth a visit.
Frank gets a haircut.
The evening is rounded up with some local delicatessen at the „Golden Gate“ restaurant – well not for all – 
Colin does some proper cleansing of his guts which he tells us took him all night. ian.
Colin does some proper cleansing of his guts which he tells us took him all night. ian.
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