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Thanks again. I was researching Cancun on the internet and I read on a few forums that it is no cheaper than London - you pay the same there as I would here. Perhaps that was refering to just the touristy hotel zone. What is a nopales? I intend to go to Chichen Itza - hopefully I'll be able to post a few pics once I'm back. Anywhere else you'd recommend - I heard there was quite a hippyish/alternative town out of Cancun - Baju or something like that??

Thanks for that. I now know to avoid Manteca. Luckily my hotel is in Downtown, so looks like I'll be eating at 100% Natural a lot. Is it relatively cheap or expensive just out of curiousity? Presumably I'd be OK at some of the American type eating establishments? I'm sure I'll love Cancun.

Hi PetaCanabis I fly out to Cancun on Sunday - I'd be grateful if you or anyone here could write me a quick blurb in Spanish as to what I can and can't eat to show waiters/staff in restaurants. I read somewhere that even beans can be cooked in lard in Mexico. Any vegan tips for Mexico would be much appreciated folks.

Cheers Crash, but I'm the laziest vegan cook out there - I'll just wait to try it from the Lebanese bakery in Toronto.

Yeah - Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Paddington are is a bit too much up it's own arse. I trained at both Ultimate Gym ( a bit like City Gym for the roiders ) and Newtown Gym - quite a bit at Newtown Gym. I think I remember IKU now you mention them.

Nice1 Denise.

So why post in the vegan recipe section - all a bit silly if you ask me. Poor jjaj2022 wants to have a crack at making this. You can't just go around teasing people like that. We could all list nice vegan food we've seen or heard about on here - what good would it be if we all were to turn around n say 'sorry folks, haven't the foggiest how you make it tho'.......

I think Bronco or Kadette will be able to advise on Vienna? What day are you flying out? Have fun - the atmosphere will be amazing!

So where's the recipe?

No I wasn't aware of the film Raven - I'll try and see if I can find it - it looks good. Aaron - I saw Escape from Sobibor when I was a kid, I'd like to see it again. I'd recommmend 'Fighting Aushcwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp' by Jozef Garlinski, a member of the Polish underground.

All those suburb names bring back memories. I liked Glebe - quite alternative with a few vegan cafes if I remember right. The market is good too. Newtown and King Street is very electic. I'd forgot all about Enmore.... I trained at a gym in Newtown too - forget the name of it. I remember the macriobiotic places - never went but always intended to. I think one was called Vita or something like that and near Centennial Park. I've just remembered I used to go one of the oriental places on George Street - the Central Station end. Again, forget what it was called. That's impressive cycling!

I'm worried that all they'll be to eat at Nat's place is nothing but cake. Just like Marie Antionette 'let him eat cake' You know what happened to her.

That'll teach her for sure.

That surprises me. I presumed Murdoch would of always supported the Republican candidate.

Yep.

Hhmmmm, sabotaging a death camp an illegal and violent act?? To the Nazis's maybe, but to everyone else... Also put it in the context of what went on in these camps - much more illegal and violent. Also, sabotaging the death camps made no difference to winning the war. Yes, the Allies did a lot of extremely bad stuff during the war, you just don't hear so much of it - 'victor's history'. That said, nothing compared to the atrocities committed by the Germans and Japanese. Yeah, try and read up on WWII if you get chance. Fascinating.

They'd be known as 'terrorists' today.

http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/new/let_my_people_live/forum/www.auschwitzanniversary2005.pl/index-eng47eb.html?s2=articles&s3=ruch_oporu The Revolt of the Sonderkommando Jews However, mutinies of groups of prisoners did happen. The most famous spurt was the long-prepared revolt of the Sonderkommando Jews, which took place on October 7, 1944. Its plan included blowing up the creamatoria, setting the prisoners’ blocks on fire, cutting the fence wires and a mass escape from the camp. The SS, however, discovered the plot: members of the Sonderkommendo were isolated from other prisoners and were being kept on the upper floor of Crematoria II-III. When in late summer, 1944, the number of transport to Auschwitz decreased, the Nazis began the liquidation of the Sonderkommando – witnesses to the most horrible crimes carried out at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In September, two hundred of its members were mudrered. On October 7, it became clear that another three hundred prisoners could share their fate. Facing the imminent threat, they decided to stand up in their own defence. When SS-men arrived at noon, members of the Sonderkommando attacked them with hammers, axes and logs of wood. They set fire to Crematorium IV. The revolt was also taken up by the prisoners from Crematorium II, who cut the wires surrounding the crematorium and started to flee in the direction of the village of Rajsk. Once there, they barricaded themselves in a barn, which the Germans set on fire upon their arrival. The prisoners from Crematoria III and V did not manage to join the revolt soon enough, before new SS units arrived. Out of 663 Sonderkommando members, 451 lost their lives. The revolt had been organized by Polish Jews: Jankiel Handelsman, Josef Deresiński, Załmen Gradowski and Josef Dorębus. The only survivor of the revolt was Handelsman. He was imprisoned in the bunker of Block 11 at Auschwitz. He died after having been tortured. Following their investigation, the Germans managed to determine the origin of explosives, which had been used by the fighters. The materials had been smuggled out illegally by Jewish women working at Union Werke. Roza Robota, Ala Gertner, Regina Safirsztajn and Estera Wajcblum were executed. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/aurevolt.html

bastard! Hey, I emailed Kenneth a year or so ago and sent a few pics. He sent a really nice and encouragin reply. He's a decent bloke in my experience. Kenneth and his wife do a lot of excellent work for animals. There used to be some info on old his site I think - veganmusclepower.com. I know his agent or someone or other requested his info and link to his website removed from Pete's veganbodybuilding.org website, which I thought was a bit unnecessary tho........ http://legalball.com/Kenneth_G_Williams_Photo.html

Hey it's getting cold here now, we are almost in winter.... it's getting as low as a chilly 10C Yep, Sydney can be pretty cold at times - I lived there back in 2000. Howdy Sydneyvegan. I lived in Stanmore and North Bondi. You remeber that women killed by bees? That woz about three doors from me in Stanmore and I wondered what the f_#k woz goin on with the ambulances and TV crews. You must know Bodhi... I miss that place. The oriental places too - forget what most of 'em are called, one near Pitt St Mall, I think another near Paddy's market too. I went to loads more veggie and vegan places I can't recall off the top of my head - got 'em scribbled down somewhere. I trained mostly at Hiscoes Gym in Surrey Hills, but I went to a hell of a lot of gyms in Sydney. Again forget the names of most of 'em... Do you mind me asking whereabouts you from in Sydney - I might know it? I did a fair bit of exploring, more than your average pom.

No offence Brian and Denise but Fox News honestly scares me.

I was trying to figue what the heck the W meant - what as publicising the W got to do with anything? - then I realised it was V V written next to each other as VV.

A big maybe.

Bloating..........

I'm worried that all they'll be to eat at Nat's place is nothing but cake.