Lake Abaya - Arba Minch

Just a quick post! We need to go and make some supper....Goat meat
stew! We have arrived in the scruffy town (as per Lonely Planet) of
Arba Minch which is on a spit of land between Lake Abaya and Lake
Chamo. Really great setting with the forested mountains to the west.
Still you can't get down to the lake easily.... Crocodiles apparently!
We have clocked in 500 odd km getting down here. As per our Michelin
map it should all have been tar. Well it was not. We had one
particular section of rocky dirt road that was 128km long and did not
do our behinds any good. Elsewhere you would cycle for 5km on good
tar and then the next 5km would look like a series of tanks and driven
up and down it for fun. We are headed further south tomorrow. We hope
to be at the border in three days or so. Thank you for all the
messages! Sorry for writing loads but its hard to put a month or so
of travel into three paragraphs! Stuart, Isobel is indeed amazing! I
am a really lucky guy! If we can't get an internet connection, merry
Christmas to all and a Happy New Year! JLC