May 21st: Rest Day with Steak and Potatoes
Day 220
While petting and watching the curious cows just on the other side of our tent, Cher couldn’t stop thinking, steak for dinner.
We made the 12.6 km trip back into town and bought more groceries stocking up on the fresh things we don’t usually have, like vegetables, spuds and eggs. One of the benefits of many Australian caravan parks is camp kitchens. You must provide the utensils and cook ware but they provide grills or “barbis” kettles, range tops, microwaves and even refrigerators.
Cher cooked 2 perfect rare t-bones and when we placed them in our dishes they spilled over the sides. Filling our small plates normally comprises an entire meal, and we were giddy at the prospect of so much meat. Steak is extremely expensive in HK but here it’s 1/4 the price.. Whcih makes sense since the steak in Hong Kong is imported from Oz. Regarldess we didn’t eat much meat in Hong Kong nor the rest of southeast Asia. Meat here is cheap which also explains the broad build of many of the guys and gals we’ve seen piling meat on top of meat at the check out line until it fills the checkout conveyor belt like a herd of cattle squeezing through a canyon. We also grilled potato wedges and by the time we were done we realized our salad would have to wait for tomorrow.
While we finished we met another Marco, alos from Italy, working here on the gworking holiday visa program. He was kind enough to make us some “real” coffee to digest our dinner. He explained that he was pretty much the only one who used the kitchen and offered to let us use his cook ware. Cher and I decided to stay another day. How could we leave, tomorrow we we’re making pancakes!
