Tigre speakers call Sunday Senbet Abay (Big Sunday) for its greatness. Sunday is a day for relaxation. It is said locally that even the sea rests on Sunday.
What is it about Sunday? Is it that easy, laidback feeling when the sunlight hits your face as you wake up in the morning? Or the feel of the cool breeze on your skin as you walk around? That care free morning, sipping a cup of your choice of morning drink while reading the day’s paper? Is it the meals and fun times shared by family and friends? Or just some time alone for introspection before the start of a long week.
The summer months of July and August in Eritrea always see a lot of wedding ceremonies. The streets are jammed with traffic because of the more than normal flow of vehicles, most of which are cars accompanying marring couples. Given that it is summer, rain, as much as it is welcome, is somewhat considered enemy number one. Nobody wants rain on the day that the bride is wearing white and everybody is in their best outfits.
The Tour of Eritrea is still going on with intense fervor. It has so far covered 2 one day races and 4 stages; and the climb towards Asmara from Massawa is going on today as scheduled. In our previous publication we had reported the Tour up until the first stage. Here follows how it went afterwards.
This is an event Eritrean people are glad to host. The Tour of Eritrea is somewhat an accord Eritreans bestow foreigners to share and rejoice in the passion they have for cycling. With a legacy that goes back way in time, cycling has become Eritrea’s most celebrated sport.
Running the Marathon in less than two hours has never been achieved to-date. Marathon in less than two hours is predicted to be achieved no earlier 2075. But the famous Nike Company doesn’t seem to agree. In 2014, Nike announced a project called “Breaking Two”, a plan to break running’s most challenging time in 2017 and make history.
Tigre speakers call Sunday Senbet Abay (Big Sunday) for its greatness. Sunday is a day for relaxation. It is said locally that even the sea rests on Sunday.
The Oxford dictionary defines the word gratitude as the act of being thankful and waiting to express it.
What is it about Sunday? Is it that easy, laidback feeling when the sunlight hits your face as you wake up in the morning? Or the feel of the cool breeze on your skin as you walk around? That care free morning, sipping a cup of your choice of morning drink while reading the day’s paper? Is it the meals and fun times shared by family and friends? Or just some time alone for introspection before the start of a long week.
The summer months of July and August in Eritrea always see a lot of wedding ceremonies. The streets are jammed with traffic because of the more than normal flow of vehicles, most of which are cars accompanying marring couples. Given that it is summer, rain, as much as it is welcome, is somewhat considered enemy number one. Nobody wants rain on the day that the bride is wearing white and everybody is in their best outfits.
The Tour of Eritrea is still going on with intense fervor. It has so far covered 2 one day races and 4 stages; and the climb towards Asmara from Massawa is going on today as scheduled. In our previous publication we had reported the Tour up until the first stage. Here follows how it went afterwards.
This is an event Eritrean people are glad to host. The Tour of Eritrea is somewhat an accord Eritreans bestow foreigners to share and rejoice in the passion they have for cycling. With a legacy that goes back way in time, cycling has become Eritrea’s most celebrated sport.
Running the Marathon in less than two hours has never been achieved to-date. Marathon in less than two hours is predicted to be achieved no earlier 2075. But the famous Nike Company doesn’t seem to agree. In 2014, Nike announced a project called “Breaking Two”, a plan to break running’s most challenging time in 2017 and make history.