[CH] Oz & NZ +Peppers
Suz (socalsuz@earthlink.net)
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:37:17 -0700
I'm back from the short trip to Oz & NZ. Tony Flynn is truly a wonderful
travel guide and chock full of information. Our first stop was to Ian
Sinclair's Pepperama shop which is fantastic. How I wish we had a shop like
that a little bit closer. Tony gave Ian a huge bag of habs, they sure did
look good. It was so nice to meet both Tony and Ian.
We also visited the "Winter Garden" in Auckland, which had a large variety
of healthy pepper plants. I have put some of the photos up at
http://home.earthlink.net\~socalsuz\Auckland.html The thumbnails don't do
justice to the pictures. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger photo.
Most of the plants are familiar but they weren't labeled.
Anyone planning to visit the countries down under, be sure to take along
your spices. The Australian food is quite horrid, New Zealand does somewhat
better. I also found out that the Aussies do not speak English as we know
it.
I did visit the Rattlesnake Grill in Sydney, and it was very good. I
ordered the Chipolte Shrimp, even tho the waiter warned me that it was
"quite spicy". Uh huh ... I was tempted to pull out my CH card. The
shrimp was tasty and we also ordered a side of jalapenos to go along with
the meal. Those were fantastic.
Weather is warming up here in SoCal, maybe it's safe to put those chile
babies outside now. It threatened to snow last weekend, now it's in the
80's.
Thanks again to Tony for the great sightseeing and next time, I'll plan to
make the trip for a much longer duration.
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