addis

Well i have now safely arrived in addis adaba and am quite settled, everthing here is so cheap a good coffee is 1.5 birr (16 birr to the pound). there is a lot of begging here though and alot of polio victims, but after dar it acctually fealls quite rellaxed and i don't feal the need to escape as much as i did in dar which incedentally provided me with a night mare of a last day woke up to find that i had misplaced my wallet and so had to cancell my credit cards which turned out to take about three hours thaen the flight i was due to take wasn't available which meant i would have to stay overnight in nirobbery.

but eventually i mannaged to get out, (the song my the animals "we've gotta get out o' this place" kept wizzing around my head). eathioppia is unlike any other part of africa i have been in to date it is far cooler and less hassel, and even 2 week old news papers have a value. another4 difference is that the local food is really good and flavoursome, deffinately the best yet.

on the dwn side though there is deffenately a more vissable divide between rich and poor, and the poor are much more visible than in other countries. when i wen't to get some money off of my one remaining credit card i had to go to the shererton hotel (which is the poshest hotel i have ever seen anywhere in the world) i was almost mugged on the way back, i was walking along when i felt some eyes on me and then a small gang of youths following me, so i did what i ussualy do when this occurs and i stop and move to the road side they walk passed me and then next thing i know there back behind me and one of them has a rock in his hand now i am a bit worried , so i start crossing the road and one of them grabs my ankles, (don't know why) just like little children somtimes do so i dragged him in to the road and so the traffic stopped and then he got up and left with all of his buddies, and without any of my possesions, looking back on it now it was all a bit sureal, but i am fine and no harm was done. i latter found out that it was a very dodgey part of town where that sort of thing often happens, but this was beffore i had a guide book so i did'nt know this, i have one now and so i should be ok.