Thank you Sandlotshrink. I was mumbling on a bit on the other thread about "Guadalcanal and all," but seriously that's where I was planning to go from Australia in a couple of weeks, and now the whole place seems to have been burned down. Believe it or not, when I was planning to visit Fiji in connection with my last trip Down Under, a couple of days before I arrived there was a coup d'etat and I had to cancel that trip to the "tropical paradise." Well, I was under no illusions that G-al was going to be a paradise, but I was hopeful of getting there. Now all the Australians and New Zealanders streaming home say "STAY AWAY!" The only Aussies going that way now are the Rapid Deployment force of the ADF! All 180 of them to keep order.
Gee---z! :cry: