Voyager joie de vivre (travel seris, #2)

In Jozi to Addis Aida, a Stewardess at Ethiopian Airlines and part-time fashion designer meets a business class passenger on flight E387 from ORTI to Bole International, Adis Ababa. The passenger is on a travel assignment doing a story on Ethiopia for a prestegious international travel magazine. She flirts, then they are courting and finally got engaged to this man. In the course of their courtship Aida gets recruited for a Cadet Pilot Programme run by the airliner, she is told the programme begins shortly in Toulouse, France just a few months after they met. Based on the training programme she realises that she will have no time for anything beside. This realisation forces her to evaluate whether she can do one and sacrifice the rest, the idea of loosing any of the three drives her insane. She decides she wants to do all three - keep her romantic relationship going, her fashion desidn and this training all at the same time. For her side hustle she employs Nonz as Head Designer to baby seat the start-up boutique and give her free rein to run the business. For her Bae, she thinks she can juggle the two balls and straddle both lanes - Toulouse and Joburg simultaneously. An innocuous flirt between Nonz and QS develops into a serious love relationship that refuses to be kept secret. Jozi to Addis is at once a travelogue and an epic romantic poem.

Abba QriquaS is author of several books as well as Sustainability advocate. Abba lives in Thembisa, South Africa.