15/2/08

Hey there dudes and dudettes

Well… as you know, last year we cut our BIGARSED adventure short due to my Grandmother falling ill, but being the diehard travellers that we are, we made a promise that we would definitely get back to Africa…

So here we are on an Emirates flight breathing in a plane load of everyone’s morning breath somewhere over the Middle East on our way to starting Ced & Avril’s Bigarsed Adventure RESURRECTED!!! YAY!!!

Our original plan was to take up where we left off and go to Kenya and Tanzania to do some safaris, but since Kenya has now descended into anarchy, we’ll be flying into Ethiopia instead and spending most of our time there.

Now originally, we had planned just to do a stop over in Ethiopia, but after researching it a bit… Man… Ethiopia sounds WAY COOLER since there is some amazing archaeology and anthropology down there which sounds just fascinating.

OK that’s a bit of a lie… well certainly there is some COOL s’hit there but the real reason we are going is because being the attention seeking nerds that we are, nothing has improved our COOL factor more than telling people that we are going to Ethiopia for our holidays! Continue reading →