We Are Moving To Ethiopia / First Impression of Addis Ababa

Well, guys, we're moving to Ethiopia, kind of, not clickbait. So today we are flying from Nairobi to Addis Ababa, which is going to be our new home for like about a month and a half. It's crazy. Crazy. So join us in our little travel day vlog from Nairobi to Addis. And, you know, I don't know what it's going to be. We have to like settle down in your new place and our first impression and all that good stuff. Are you ready to fly business class, by the way? Oh, we're actually? Yeah, we're business. Welcome to Fraser. The lounge is almost empty this morning, which is pretty nice. Feels like a true VIP experience. And then we have we have some breakfast, some eggs that look like, OK, sausage bread, better than nothing. We're probably going to have another meal on the plane anyway. Got to be honest, the coffee is not great. So because the lounge coffee didn't supply, so I'm coming to Java to get an Americano, but they just redid it and I never noticed that before. So it's super nice now. So today we're flying on the E190 with Kenya Airways. It's a very small plane, but it's just a two hours and something flight. So it's very short. There's only 12 seats in business class, but I'm going to let Tracy give you a little seat tour. A little seat tour? I do have to say the seats are actually pretty comfy and where like it's not a business like flat or anything like that. But the seats are much wider, a lot more legroom, which is fantastic. We have a TV. We have a pillow, a good pillow. And then in here you have your table. I'm really hoping there's a plug for there's no headphones. It's yeah, but there's no headphones. I'm sure they'll give you some. I hope so. And then there's a plug to charge your phone. So we'll see what the selection of movies is like, because I didn't download anything on my phone. So hopefully, hopefully it's a good one. It's only a two hour flight. It's not long. Craziness. They even gave us a full on menu for breakfast. For the size of the plane and the length of the flight. Like I'm impressed. Better be good. My expectations weren't too high for the food because, you know, like it's airplane food business class or not. But like after reading what's in the menu, we invite you to sit back and embark on an African culinary experience, carefully crafted to stimulate your taste buds and serve out our warm, exceptional African hospitality. Now I'm hungry. First course of our second breakfast, we have some fruit and a yogurt. Thank you so much. Good, good pilot. Good crew, by the way. See you soon. Welcome to Bowling International Airport. Future Tracy here. I'm here to talk to you about the realities of travel, and one of that reality is travel insurance. So today we partnered with Safety Wing to talk about their Nomad travel insurance. 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Temporary. Yeah. But before we start unpacking or whatever, we have nothing, no food, no anything. We need some groceries. We're going to go on a little walk. We saw that there's a grocery store not too far from here. Yeah. We'll see what it looks like. When I drove past it, it looked pretty nice. Hey, as long as they have food, they won me over. Let's go. So the good news is that they literally have everything, but the bad news is prices are so expensive. I'm going to give you a few prices in USD just so everyone understands. So we'll show you what we have. David says it's around 100 USD. 101 USD for a little bag of food. Well, we'll put it all on the counter when we get back home and we'll show you. One hundred and one dollars USD. Keep in mind, this is the first supermarket that we've come across. There could be cheaper places. I don't know yet. Um, yeah, we got squash, garlic, dozen eggs, some oats, olive oil, hot sauce, salt, can of beans, rice, pasta, small thing of peanut butter, small thing of coffee, nothing crazy. Now that the storm has passed, we are back up and around to explore new surroundings. We just walked into Kaldi's Coffee. I don't really want a coffee right now because it's about 3.30. So we got a cake to go. Our main mission was to find SIM cards and Internet so we can keep uploading on the Internet. And we found it two hours later. Well, this took about two hours, but we're back online. Bananas. Yeah, that's good. Just got three kgs of banana from a street vendor. Go, go, go, go, go, go. For about like $3.50 USD. Like, I feel like that's a pretty good price. I don't know if I paid local price or tourist price. Still feel like it's a good deal. So back in our little rental house, we just realized that like our supper is going to be kind of bland because like we have salt for spices. I have fresh garlic and we have onion. Kind of bought a little bit of everything, but like not enough to make something tasty. So, you know, it's going to be what it's going to be. And hot sauce. Hot sauce cures everything. That's going to be the lifesaver right here. Otherwise, while we're cooking, we're going to give you our first impression of Ethiopia. Well, more like Addis. I mean, we haven't seen Ethiopia yet. And we haven't even gone fully out in Addis because like Bole, from what I understand, is more like the downtown Addis. We're a little bit further out. But we still walk 10,000 steps around the neighborhood. So. Want some bananas? That's true. Let's make supper. So because we bought a ridiculous amount of bananas, three kg, we're going to freeze some to make some smoothies or another stuff so we don't lose any. Whatever we want. And in the meantime, here's what we think. Yeah. This new home, temporary home. I'm pretty impressed, to be honest. I would say like first impression. It's very clean, like very, very clean. And also like the amount of like green spaces, like there's trees everywhere. They're really trying to make sure that like I really, I really appreciate that. Like it looks really good. Like as we were like driving along the roads and stuff and you see all the beautiful trees. Yeah, I'm a fan. Plus, traffic is not as crazy here as it is in Kenya. People respect the traffic laws a little bit more, which is always a plus. So far, so from what we see. Food prices, though? Insane. A little ridiculous. Internet prices, though, pretty good. I mean, so for the Internet, like I I'm not sure again, like the English level here is not it's a little bit. It's a little bit more tricky. So but from what I understand, our Internet is kind of in unlimited for about 20 USD a month, which is pretty decent. Yeah. So basically our goal right now is to see as much as we can of Addis. And then we're going to try and explore outside of Addis as well. But kind of to get our foot under us just to get started, where we're here for a longer time. Start now with Addis. Step one, hot sauce flavor. Lots of it. I'm just hoping it's not too, too spicy for the few ingredient we had. There's nothing wrong with this dish. Guys, not saying this is what you eat here in Ethiopia. This is just like our plain grain grocery run because we haven't discovered the spots yet. Stay tuned. I'm sure there's a lot of good food. We'll work on that. Yeah. Let's see if Ethiopia can make cake. It's not bad. So anyway, we're going to enjoy that. Thanks for coming with us on our travel to Addis. There's going to be a lot of Ethiopian content coming up after this. So make sure to subscribe. Stay posted. And until then, see you guys in the next one.