{"id":448,"date":"2006-03-29T05:05:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2006-03-29T05:05:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T05:05:57","slug":"hostel_perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/hostel_perks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostel Perks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One perk of staying in a hostel is that you have access to a kitchen and you can make your own food.<br \/>\nSometimes you can get lucky when your hostel has a gas-fired barbeque!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s my last night in Oz, so I figured I&#8217;d do a <s>shrimp<\/s> steak on the barbie!  I drove into town with a couple of the fellas and got beer and a steak.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak1-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRubbed it down with a little salt and pepper, and fired up the grill.  They do things differently here.  Note the spanners (pliers) for the steak below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak2-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKidding!  Here&#8217;s the implements of torture for da meat!  Best and cheapest meal I&#8217;ve had here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oztools.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/oztools.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">View image<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Note the spatula thingy.  Bigger than a CD and has a bottle opener on the neck.<\/em><br \/>\nOz meat DOES taste different from US meat.  US cows are fed corn while Ozzie cows are fed grass.  Something for bar trivia!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak3.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak3.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ozsteak3-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One perk of staying in a hostel is that you have access to a kitchen and you can make your own food. Sometimes you can get lucky when your hostel has a gas-fired barbeque! It&#8217;s my last night in Oz, so I figured I&#8217;d do a shrimp steak on the barbie! I drove into town &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/hostel_perks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hostel Perks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-03-syd-and-the-hunter-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}