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Beer and Pizza Review #7

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Ok, this is the final Beer and Pizza review. I know, sad isn’t it?

Cambodia & Indoniesia addition.

I have a sad sad regret. I never tried pizza in either Cambodia or Indonesia. However I did try brains. I’m not sure what kind of animal it was but in Bali I munched on some bright yellow curried brains. It was terrible mostly because I knew it was brains. The interesting thing about pizza in Cambodia is that lots of shops are called “Happy Herb Pizza” or “Happy Pizza” and that is basically a pizza with THC cooked into it or magic mushrooms. You can tell by the name of the place and the picture usually has a crazy bloodshot eyed cartoon character eating it. I did not try any so I have no review on the pizza itself although it is completely legal in both Laos and Cambodia.

The beer in Cambodia was some of the cheapest I was able to find. Angkor Beer is the cheapest and is brewed locally. Happy hours had the beer sold at .50 for about 12 ozs and .75-$1 any other time of the day. The beer wasn’t all that great but for a price like that there was no other option in my opinion.

There is also Anchor beer which I’m not sure where exactly it is brewed but you can find it all over SE Asia and it is a bit better than Angkor. They are both typical ales. Light and tasteless but they do the job.

Then there is Bintang which is a beer sold through out Bali in Indonesia. It is the only non-ale of the beers around the world since it is a pilsner. It had a lot more flavor but it was more bitter than any of the others. Still, it was the only choice in Bali unless I wanted to drink a Heineken or a Budweiser. I spent most of my time in Indonesia drinking tequila and whiskey. It was my final week… I was allowed to celebrate.

Trouble in Paradise

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Who would have thought the biggest challenge I would face would be simply returning home.

I am now sitting in an internet cafe in the Tuban neighborhood near Kuta Beach in Bali. The weather is gorgeous, albeit hot, and not a cloud in the sky. I am waiting an hour and a half for Skype to finish downloading so I can contact Expedia about my case# and once and for all figure out my plan for tonight.

My mom has been on the phone with supervisors at expedia while I have been emailing and dealing with Japan Air and Northwest here on the island. The latest information from my home is that I am to show up at the airport tonight with a 6 digit confirmation code and my identification and there should be no problems. It isn’t the norm for Japan Airlines to take an e-ticket but this will be an exception. Well, I decided I wanted to go to the airport early today to find out if this is going to work but there were no Japan Airlines counters open and the one for my flight isn’t till 8pm tonight. My flight is at midnight. It is now 3:30pm. So I go into the main office for Japan Air at the airport and spoke with the woman who couldn’t help me the first time. She got me in contact with reservations and the woman basically told me they couldn’t do anything with the confirmation code and that I need to contact Northwest Airlines because it isn’t their problem to deal with. I tried to explain that this is what Expedia put together to fix my problem and that they were already in contact with both Jap and NWA.

I had already contact NWA 2 days ago since they have an office on the island. Their systems weer down so she told me she would call me back. I tried a few times and didn’t get an answer and this afternoon NWA called me at my hotel to tell me they need me to come out to the otherside of the island which is about an hour by taxi and file a police report indicating a lost ticket. I would then have to go to the NWA office and have them issue me a paper ticket. This is all well and good but I am nowhere near that part of the island, the taxi is expensive both ways and the NWA office closes in 1.5 hours.

So, I now sit here with only the hopes that Expedia’s plan for me to show up at the ticket counter to check-in with the confirmation code will be enough. I am hoping that the people I talked to today in the Japan Airlines were just unknowledgable of the situation. I will get to the airport as soon as the ticket counter for my flight opens which is 8pm. I have to check out of my hotel at 6. If I can’t get on this flight with my ticket I may have to purchase a brand new full fare that Expedia claims they will refund me. The only bright side of all this is that I may be getting a first class seat if all of economy class is full.

I just want to get home though really.

Hurry Up

Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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This is not Jakarta

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Kwaheli sasa Africa

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Goodbye Africa. I am back in Dar es Salaam and in a matter of a few hours I will be heading back to the airport to catch my flight out of Africa and into Asia. I have 2 very long ... [Continue reading this entry]