another new car

Bert surprised me with a new car.  This one a little more practical than his.  Im usually very unimpressed by cars but this one is lovely.  Its a KIA Soul. 

Where have we been?

So much has happened since the last blog post.  Its always hard to get back into blogging after a gap because where do you begin to fill in the gaps that have happened.


First, our lovely Laura has been for a holiday.  Laura has been in Korea working and is on her way home to Australia, via Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa and Katmandu!  So shes taking the scenic route.

Laura, Bert and I flew to Addis for a week.  It was hard going.  Addis is brown, dirty brown.  Full of poverty and human misery everywhere you look.  It was all overwhelming.

We stayed in a small guest house near the orphanage, it was spotlessly clean but very basic.  It seemed so wrong to stay in a flash hotel surrounded by such poverty.

Our driver drove a standard blue and white Lada car with one window winder and door handle between four of us.  Stickers of the virgin Mary on the windscreen apparently are an added safety feature like an airbag.