It’s been a long time without posting an update. My New Year’s resolution was to keep the blog updated and add three new posts a week; given that it is now March 1 and this is my first post, you can imagine the state of the rest of this year’s resolutions.My most recent posts (last…

Arrived here from Toronto on Sunday evening. The weather had been, for Oslo, unusually hot for the previous couple of weeks, in the 30’s, but it broke a couple of days before we arrived and is now a much more bearable mid-20’s. This is more than usually pleasant since AC is not usually required here…

Davos Switzerland, sunset, from my hotel window  

V and I both left Nairobi on March 30, she in the afternoon on Emirates with an overnight hotel stay in Dubai and me at midnight straight through via Brussels. We both arrived in Toronto within 90 minutes of each other so I waited for her and we both took the same limo home. Jet…

V and I spent our final dinner in Ethiopia at the Sheraton Addis. Over dinner we chatted, trying to pin down what we found most surprising about the country. V’s random thoughts:Ethiopia is roughly the same size as Sweden. Population 80 million, Sweden 9 mill. Pop of Addis is 3.3 million and growing daily. Ugly…