Snakes in the aircon, killer crocs in the river, virtualisation for apps Just over two years ago, your correspondent finished covering the 2013 World Solar Challenge, the solar car race between the Australian cities of Darwin and Adelaide. We decided not to go again this year because twice is probably enough. But reader Scott Knights lives near Darwin, in a spot called Humpty Doo, and kindly sent …
Q: What do you miss about the UK?
A: Real ale, cod and chips, Indian food. Most beer sold here is lager chilled to the point where you can't taste it. [...] for some reason there are no decent Indian takeaways.
In my experience this is true of everywhere outside of the state capitals in Aus.
His comment about fixed wireless NBN and trees is rather worrying too. It sounds like we'll be fucked when they light up the local tower next year.
Fixed wireless not going through trees is not surprising. Not sure what band they're using, but pretty much all the microwave bands can be quite severely attenuated by vegetation.
The person in government who rubber-stamped the change probably understand next to nothing about radio propagation.
Wireless internet is always a bad idea for a whole host of reasons, signal attenuation being one of the main ones. Even if you were to put up an antenna mast tall enough to clear the trees around the house, you should still expect it not to work for much of the rainy season and work poorly when it's just humid.
"Even if you were to put up an antenna mast tall enough to clear the trees around the house, you should still expect it not to work for much of the rainy season and work poorly when it's just humid."
Not to mention that you just created a great lightning rod....
In my experience this is true of everywhere outside of the state capitals in Aus.....
No decent Indian Takeaways in the capitals either... (or at least, the bastardised UK indian versions)
having said that, there is a Thai takeaway down the road from me that is spectacular!
I DONT miss the cost of commuting - my train ride from victoria into Melbourne flinders st is pretty much the same in minutes as my old commute into Euston.. which cost me 80quid for a day return. Here, roughly 3.50 pounds return per day.
In my office the guys think i am joking when i told them my season ticket used to be around 7.5k (pounds) / $15000
"No decent Indian Takeaways in the capitals either..."
If you're in Adelaide, Beyond India does a good arse-burning vindaloo, along with a decent range of other Indian goodies. They also do home delivery if you live within about 6 km of the city or Modbury areas for when you don't feel like going out to eat.
I hear many a ex-pat Brit state that there are no decent Indian restaurants in Australia.
It's taken me years to work out why.
An English Indian curry experience is actually quite unique.
It's neither Indian NOR Australian-Indian.
Personally, I find the English curry styles to be either too sweet or too bland - in many but not all cases.
I have found 3 takeaways in the Darwin Area. Saffron in Parap (as mentioned by another commenter) Memories of India on Sabine Road and a place in Palmerston whose name escapes me. Memories of India is the best by a long way, but they are all absurdly expensive and don't taste as good (to me) as the food in the UK.
It is probably due to competition. Having lived in the Leeds/Bradford area where there are a lot of great Indian restaurants, the crap ones just wouldn't survive. Here, they can get away with it, due to the lack of competition.
I did find a couple of great restaurants in Brisbane.
and remember the dress code:
thongs*
stubbies
mullett
hi vis/bintang singlet
Like most other territory pubs in that respect.
Humpty Doo is a GREAT place to live, if it wasn't for the my the sailing and access to boats, its where I'd choose to live in Darwin.
* sold in Humpty Doo as "Territory Work Boots"
You can get a pretty good curry experience in Bendigo - the "Curry Garden" up on the first floor near The Fountain in the Bendigo CBD.
It's a pretty broad menu, with Anglo-Indian choices that please our wandering Pom palates.
There are others there, too.
Altogether some pretty good eating is available.
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