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Jack is a retard and deleted my first blog! Lol
Anyway, we are here in Ethiopia. It's quite high up, about 2400 metres above sea level! One of the highest places in the world. The weather's great, been very hot both days.
We arrived early on Tuesday morning where my Uncle's son Andy and his son Joe picked us up from the airport. We jumped in a taxi and the first thing I see is Arsenal memorabilia everywhere! I immediately told the bloke Spurs was the way to go! The taxi, like all the others was a battered blue and white car. On our short journey to Andy's house, it was obvious that this was a third world country with the driving standards, the people sharing the roads with the cars in most places and the tiny shops, all a bit too crowded. But Addis does have a population of 3million and it is the capital of this country!
We met Andy's wife Kath and other baby son, Leo, before going out for a coffee down the road, where I had the most amazing orange juice ever. Freshly squeezed from about 6-8 oranges, it was delicious! However, unlike the coffee at 17p a cup, my juice was about a £1! Not bad though for all those squeezed oranges and vitamins!
Andy later took us around Addis, jumping on crammed minbuses where they squeeze everyone on and you pay the equivalent of 5p! Not bad although I did have my gangly legs wrapped around my ears!
Near Andy's school, he took us for this awesome food called Injera and Shero! It's like some locally made tortilla-like-dough-like thing, with Shero (a delicious spicy curry like thing with chickpeas). Who said I'd be struggling for food here?! And at the cost of 50p for that meal! Who cares!?
I wore my Zokora Spurs shirt round yesterday and it was a bad mistake. Hundreds of locals now recognise me and shout Totten-ham and Zokora because they I'm like the only white man around that's 6foot5 and supports the yids! They all follow United and Arsenal, mainly Arsenal! I thought I'd got away from that!
Another thing, the locals love holding hands but I mean the men! Apparently it's not homosexual. So I asked Jack to hold mine and he declined....Lol
After another walk with Andy, we had a cheeky beer in a bar at the extortionate amount of 12p a half pint. Terrible....
His wife Kath then took us out to the British Embassy where we had a few more pints and participated in a quiz. Bit of a laugh - but we didn't win - although we did learn that 'dooking' is like apple bobbing in Scottish.
Woken up the next day by being smacked in the head by Leo, I went back to sleep and then was re-awoken by Ballard. We went for a walk up this massive hill and bought ourselves some lunch to make. I went into a tiny bakery, handed over a 100 Birr note (£4) for something two baguettes costing 15p....the woman looked at me as if to say, 'are you kidding?' haha
We then purchased bananas, avocados, water (70p in total) and a tomato (about 5p). A long, uphill walk needed many stops to adjust to the air getting thinner and thinner. Considering we are so high as it is, the hour up the hill/mountain wasn't a bad effort. And it was worth it for the views. God knows why some people live up there in their mud-huts and taking their donkeys up the hill! Oh, and there's hundreds of Red Kites around (birds of prey for you numpty's).
On the way down the hill, hundreds of kids walking said hi and asked for money and a muslim woman was not impressed with my body on display - so back went on the top! They had this giant football pitch on the hill, and some kids were walking back from school with balls made out of plastic bags. I tackled one, played him up doing dragbacks but he had a tackle on him like Michael Essien! lol
I bought some horrible Mango juice, gave it to Jack in exchange for water, and he then gave it to some school kid. Bless him. Not the kid, Jack! Some of these kids are rude!
A quick OJ at the cafe, a nap, burgers for tea, planning more of our trip and checking our mails was enough to call it a day!
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