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Best and Worst of 2011 22-Dec-2011 At 1:46:41 PM linze

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On 22/12/2011 Olbert wrote:

>
>Are you kidding me?! I loved Tonsai! The food was like a $1.60 for a
>Penang/Green Curry/Tom Yum/Pad Thai/Pretty much any main. The people there
>were awesome...except for the occasional obnoxious Australian. The locals
>were super friendly. The climbing was different to anything I ever climbed
>before, and was pretty awesome in its own way despite the oppressive heat
>and humidity.

i knew someone would go into bat for tonsai....
Tinas was good pre tsunami. i think Bob (the one constant in Tonsai it seems) nailed it when he said to me that the curries had been so watered down in Tonsai that it was more like a soup... Bob reckons he is never going there again after this year which i reckon tells a story....

add that to piles or rubbish, flies, broken asbestos sheeting and tiles everywhere, and wanna be alternative types that have bang on about the spritual awakenings that they have experienced on thier travels, and i just dont really get the appeal of the place...

>>
>>real best: price and quality of beer in the frankenjura
>
>Lucky the beer was so good in the Frankenjura because I thought the climbing
>was worse than New Nowra (and I agree with ODH on that particular subject).

WHAAAAT!!! i dont belive that anyone that actually likes the movement of climbing could place thailand above the frankenjura! frankenjura is packed with fiesty routes that fight you all the way and require engagement of pratically every muscule in your body... thailand - you basically move your feet a bit, backstep a couple of times and youré at the top... if you like having your ego rubbed thailand is tops, but the routes are as lacking in spice as the curries at tonsai....