I tend to associate Ethiopia with famine, but the country has excellent cuisine, based on my experience tonight of an Abyssinian restaurant on Henley Beach Road. The food was spicy without being hot. It’s eaten by hand with soft pancake-textured bread.
Victoria Falls
This is the last in my current nostalgia series. The photo was taken in October 1990 at Victoria Falls from the Zambian side. I did a week-long tour of Zimbabwe and really enjoyed the spectacle of the falls. With another Australian, two Swiss and an Italian we hired bikes, hazarded the border crossing and took [...]
Pieter Willem Botha
The former President of South Africa PW Botha died on October 31, 2006. He was already out of the political scene when I visited South Africa for the first time in 1990 and FW de Klerk had accelerated the reform process. Botha was seen as stubborn in the face of irresistible change but in terms [...]
A new Aussie
June 9, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Juliet became an Australian citizen on 30 May 2006. She is pictured with the Mayor of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Mr Ron Yuryevich. She is now a dual citizen of South Africa and Australia.
