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7. CHRISTMAS DINNER & BOMBS IN BALI
 January
2003 - Australia & Bali
Hello.
We haven't done a great deal this month. Mostly, we've
loafed around our friends, Helen and Peter's house in
Nhulunbuy, in the Northern Territory of Australia, enjoying
the comforts of home.
Christmas
dinner was fish and prawns this year. The Barramundi we
caught ourselves on a fishing trip in the Azafura Sea
in Peter's tinny - well, I didn't catch the fish, but
I was in the boat when it was landed so I consider it
a moral victory over nature. A stickleback remains the
biggest fish I've ever caught. Either way it was quite
unlike the usual roast dinner we enjoy at home but there
at least Tesco can slaughter my dinner for me.
In
the evening we enjoyed another dinner at Mark and Natalie's
house, friends of our friends, that consisted of more
hunted food: goose and salmon. Lovely.
 I
could talk about food, and what you have do to get it
if you don't have a supermarket nearby, for much longer
but the I-net café will close soon, as will all
the restaurants (back to food again). We're in Bali by
the way, in Kuta, not far from the wreck of Paddy's and
the Sari Club.
The
bombs that devastated these establishments also devastated
business on the island too. It's not fair - the hospitable
Balinese do not deserve their present fate of being a
tourist Mecca with so very few tourists.
We
haven't been doing too much other than eat our way around
the town as we have been catching up with work and this
issue comes accompanied by the Australia and New Zealand
Supplement that we promised last issue.
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Next >> 8. Thieving Monkey
1.
First Issue / 2.
Inca Trial / 3.
Lake Titicaca / 4.
The Border / 5.
Leaving LA
6. Flush
& Queue / 7.
Christmas Dinner & Bombs in Bali / 8.
Thieving Monkey
9.
Islands / 10.
Cheesecake & Whiskey / 11.
Another New Year
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