Wonderful Outside
October 5, 2008
Remember dats place, haha…Do u remember…..!!! lets see…We were covered in soot, sittin on rock-hard benches, hot, sweaty and crawlin along at maybe five miles an hour.
But we were lovin every minute of it, chuggin straight up a mountainside, puff by puff, in a 1938 steam train built by the Italians when Eritrea was the jewel in their African crown.
Outside our windows unfurled a sun-blasted landscape untouched by modernity, stone walls, trickling waterfalls, boys tugging camels, women with beautifully braided hair and gold hoops through their noses trudging up the mountain paths….any..!
The sky was impossibly blue, it always seemed to be like that her, and from the railway tracks 7,000 feet above sea level, we could see for hundreds of miles in each direction.
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