The Generation Game

Remember the Generation Game on BBC TV years ago (Bruce Forsyth was the
host, at least in the original version)....well, I was reminded of it as
I waited at the baggage carousel in Bole airport this morning, after
coming back from Gondar.

Let me see if I can remember...two big plastic jars of honey, a plastic
water bottle filled with yellow tej (like mead - an alcoholic drink made
from honey), a yellow plastic bag tied with string (which later revealed
a big iron pot inside it, when it burst in the owner's hand), a
pillow-case filled and tied up, a gabbi (Ethiopian white cotton blanket)
sticking out of the top of a hold-all, an Orthodox Christian church
stick (like a long walking stick, used for leaning on during church
ceremonies), an open bag of kolo (roasted & salted barley), an Orthodox
priest's velvet umbrella....and lots of suitcases and holdalls.

A fairly typical collection of baggage coming off an Ethiopian Airlines
internal flight, in my experience!

Will report on Timkat in Gondar soon - it was really amazing and more so
for the Millennium year.