After enjoying our night of comparable luxury in Mekele, we ate leftover birthday cake for breakfast and then took a short flight to Addis Ababa. Our afternoon arrival, however, was more than ten hours before Marc’s and my 2:00 a.m. flight out of Ethiopia, so we spent one last (predictably rainy) afternoon in Addis with our friends.1
Leaving Ethiopia, we flew on Qatar Airways, which is one of those airlines about which you always hear really nice things – and I can confirm for you that it is all true. The planes were new, the seats were spacious and comfortable, the food was good, and the in-flight entertainment had an almost bewildering amount of options.
