Phil and Chris's Blog - The End. (Plus a few photos of Madagascar)

Posted by Phil on Tuesday, 17 December 2019

We began our blog in November 2019 as a record of our time in Ethiopia, which came to an end when we returned permanently to the UK on 17th June this year. So this will be our final blog post - it's quite long, but we hope you enjoy it. I've also added a gallery of photos from a short 5-day trip to Madagascar earlier this year. (To view the gallery, click the first photo and a box should appear allowing you to play it as a slide show or click through one by one).

We want to say a big "thank you" to our faithful readers. Your comments and support over the last 6 years have really helped us in what was at times a quite testing environment. We wouldn't change it for the world of course - something I hope you have picked up as you have travelled this road along side us. We're back now - our new address is in the blog post. So, for the last time, here are the links to our website:

So Long, and Thanks for all the Fun (A Letter to Dr Abiy)

Submitted by Phil on Tue, 17/12/2019 - 23:12

Dr Abiy doing official stuff(If you're puzzled by the title, click here.)
Dear Dr Abiy,

It was with a mixture of sadness and eager anticipation of the future that Chris and I left your amazing homeland of Ethiopia on 17th June 2019. When we arrived at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa on 21st November 2013 we couldn’t have anticipated just how thrilling, challenging, life-changing and fun-filled the next six years would be. The people we would meet, friends we would make, work we would complete and things we would achieve are now the subject of constant reflection and gratitude to God. Happy as we are to have settled back into our home country with family, a multitude of grandchildren1, a new church and new challenges ahead, there is much about our term in Addis Ababa that we will always miss.

 
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