Howard Somerville's photos

Church of St Mary, Lalibela, Ethiopia

Day after day, alone on the hill The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still But nobody wants to know him They can see that he's just a fool And he never gives an answer But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around Well on the way, head in a cloud The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud But nobody ever hears him Or the sound he appears to make And he never seems to notice But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around And nobody seems to like him They can tell what he wants to do And he never shows his feelings But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around He never listens to them He knows that they're the fools They don't like him The fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around

Lalibela, Ethiopia

Church of St Mary, Lalibela, Ethiopia

Simien Mountains NP, Ethiopia

This sign remains standing only because the woodworm are holding hands.

The oldest wooden Church in the World, and the oldest ‘Stave Built’ timber building in Europe. The split logs forming the South wall of the nave date from about 1060.