{"id":462,"date":"2014-05-02T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=462"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:21:22","slug":"day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Day 26 &#8211; Addis Abbaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>7716 km from from Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>HISTORY LESSONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We set out today with a mission and found a taxi and secured it for the day.<br \/>\nFirst was the experience of coffee at Tobocca &#8211; a famous coffee house and we enjoyed a cup of the strong stuff, then we were driven to a pleasant market where we all bought some local goods for those back home. Our obliging driver then took us across town to the National museum &#8211; a rundown affair but it does house Lucy and so we enjoyed that. Back across town and we went to more modern museum &#8216;The Red Terror Museum&#8217; which was a very interesting if sometimes a little harrowing account of the terrible rein of the military Derg that overthrew Emporer Haille Selassie in the early seventies and ruled brutally for three decades.<br \/>\nA little disturbed by the exhibits we took off once again across town to collect our passports from the friendly Sudanese embassy people<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Tango<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_959\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"size-large wp-image-959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Famous Tomoca coffee house in Addis Ababa\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_26_20140424_084505_g_img_0819.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Famous Tomoca coffee house in Addis Ababa<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7716 km from from Cape Town HISTORY LESSONS We set out today with a mission and found a taxi and secured it for the day. First was the experience of coffee at Tobocca &#8211; a famous coffee house and we enjoyed a cup of the strong stuff, then we were driven to a pleasant market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}