Today is 11/11/16, exactly five years since we left New Zealand!
We celebrated with a bottle of our Heles beer which you can only get from Fassbier, our favourite bar in Caxias. It’s a tiny semi-private bar run by a German guy who never realises that I’m not speaking German when I say “Euzen falazen ze alemaozen” (Izen speakenzen ze Germanzen)! We’re drinking the beer out of jars because we’ve noticed that it’s all the fashion now in the west, all the most expensive smoothies are served in jars like this nowadays 🙂 Beth made some Brazilian Bolinhos to go with the beer which is deep fried rice cakes 🙂
Here’s a picture from our celebration, and next to it a picture from Java House in Devonport on the day we left five years ago, it’s a receipt for my last coffee in New Zealand which is dated at 11:11 on 11/11/11.
