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Default Vietnamese rice paper rolls, and Asahi beer

sf > wrote in
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> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:34:24 +0000 (UTC), "I'm back on the laptop"
> > wrote:
>
>> Sitting in the Virgin Blue Lounge at Melbourne airport, having a nice
>> cooling Asahi beer, while the SO has a couple of glasses of Tattinger
>> bubbly.

>
> Such a hard life.... sniffle.




It's a bit hard to get used to the fact of being home again!!



>>
>> The short haul from Hobart to here, they served us the rice paper
>> rolls with a dipping sauce. It didn't taste very spicy to start with
>> but *holy crap*!! I spent most of the flight in pain, and not able to
>> drink my G&T till we were on approach. But it's all cool now, and the
>> next leg back to Brisbane will be the dinner run, so it will be
>> interesting to see what is going to be served up in Business Class.
>>
>> The SO has decided that now she has flown Business Class for her last
>> 5 flights, she is never flying 'cattle class' again :-)

>
> I think it will be dangerous to your wallet to let her get a glimpse
> of First Class and it's a real possibility that she'll get one now
> that you've gone and upgraded to business class like that.
>



Luckily, all domestic flights (within Aust) only have Businmess and
'cattle class'.

And Business Class on an o/s trip won't be too much of a hardship :-)






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Peter
Tasmania
Australia