Food for thought

The hardest thing to do while traveling is to find food. Especially when you need 3 meals a day or at least 2. You never know where to go, whats good, whats bad and if you have a language barrier only adds to the complexity of the situation. China was Chinese food 3 meals a day that got real old after 17 days, Africa was totally disgusting all meals all days. Australia has been relatively easy, they eat what we eat. We’ve not even had to resort to MacDonalds, and there are plenty of those around. They do seem to love meat here, I realized yesterday when eating our cesear salad with bacon bits that Maija was having bacon for the 3rd time that day. Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast, bacon and cheese croissant for lunch, and then bacon bits on salad for dinner.

But, we’ve had kangaroo in Cairns, which was very delicious. I expected to sample it, and push it away. It was served as kabobs and was delicious. We both finished it all. Barramundi is “their” fish here, you can find it anywhere. It’s a white fish and very good, we’ve had that several times served in various ways. In Darwin we found a Sunday night BBQ buffet, which had bbq, beef, pork, lamb and chicken complete with fresh salad, vegetables, baked potatoes and rolls. One of the best meals we’ve had here! Darwin is in the very north part of the country, closest to Indonesia. So we’ve also had very good Thai food. They also have many varities of exotic fruit which we’ve tried all of them and most are good, soursop, mangosteen, dragon fruit. And, the usual pineapple, cantaloupe, mango, and watermelon.

So, really what I’m saying here is that Africa was a really good diet plan, and Australia is not. Do not expect us to come home 10lbs lighter.