The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal.
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Asmara
Keren
Massawa
Asmara
Asmara Palace Hotel (née Intercontinental)
By chance, it was Tourism Week
Medebar Market: Recycling old metal
Recycled metal goods
Lutheran (?) Church
Eritrean Orthodox Church (~1938)
Khulafa al-Rashidun Mosque (1938)
Faded Art Deco building
Official Reviewing Stand
Art Deco Cinema Impero
Catholic Cathedral (1923)
Cathedral Belltower (1925)
Cathedral interior
Fiat Tagliero Gas Station (1938)
An unusual Art Deco structure
Fiat Tagliero
Fiat Tagliero
St Francis Church (1938)
Art Deco Cinema Roma
St Michael Orthodox Churc
View over Asmara
"Tank Cemetery", just outside Asmara
Ruined gear + guide
Keren
Modern Church
Keren: St Mary's Baobab: An important pilgrimage site
St Mary’s Baobab
Shrine interior
St Mary’s Baobab: rear view
Keren: Commonwealth War Cemetery
WWII Commonwealth War Cemetery
WWII Commonwealth War Cemetery
Massawa
Massawa was heavily damaged in 1990 Ethiopian bombing.
Tank Memorial to 1990 Liberation of Massawa
View to Massawa
Former Bank of Italy
Art Deco hotel
Shape mimicking a ship's prow
"Haile Selassie's Palace"
"Haile Selassie's Palace"
"Mosque of the Companions"
An Ottoman structure,
perhaps
on a much older site
Madagascar
Germany