{"id":104,"date":"2020-03-28T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:33:13","slug":"travels-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/other-places-other-times\/travels-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sergey-pesterev-DWXR-nAbxCk-unsplash-2048x1370.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In March 2013 I flew solo from Torino to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My husband had been working there and in Tanzania since January; his work was wrapping up and we planned three weeks of sight-seeing and relaxation. From Addis to Lalibela in Ethiopia, then on to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Moshi, and Arusha, in Tanzania, we flew in tiny airplanes that slipped and sailed among the clouds. It was a lightning-round initiation, my first glimpse into two very different African culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2025\/03\/15\/hotel-mediterraneo-23-07-13\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"528\">From Hotel Mediterraneo &#8211; 03.27.13<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2025\/02\/18\/from-moshi-2-april-2013\/\">From Moshi, 2 April 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2025\/03\/15\/arusha-national-park-6-8-april-2013\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"572\">Arusha National Park<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/2025\/02\/18\/in-tanzania-there-is-always-a-place-to-wash-your-hands\/\">In Tanzania there is always a place to wash your hands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2013 I flew solo from Torino to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. My husband had been working there and in Tanzania since January; his work was wrapping up and we planned three weeks of sight-seeing and relaxation. From Addis to Lalibela in Ethiopia, then on to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Moshi, and Arusha, in Tanzania,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/other-places-other-times\/travels-in-africa\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-nosidebar_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/1702"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}