“It’s not legal to drink in public. I’ve seen it done, but rarely. Colombo was supposed to have a rich history of ‘dodgy bars’. History turns out to be the operative word. Yet such places do exist.
For a strongly prohibitive alcohol culture, Sri Lanka makes a damn fine lager.”
– Long Tong
THE QUEENSTOWN PUTSCH:
Vic dodges vengeful Germans through the dive bars of New Zealand’s adventure capital
Isy rides the Edge of a volcano (and his own competence), testing the Line between Top Gun and Total Disaster.
Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia. An investigation into what went wrong when a group of international backpackers were without their guide and had to fend for themselves in the Kakadu wilderness.
Izzy enters the holiest Balinesian city skeptically. In the silence that follows he makes unexpected offerings.
It is Tet, the lunar new year in Vietnam. An American tourist is unraveling on the gutter’s edge. He plunges beer-bloated hands deep into tight blue-jean pockets. It is a futile attempt to anchor himself to something more tangible than his run-afoul luck.
In Korea, Isy thought he’d found the best place in the world to have a beer. Until a Halloween Miracle occurred, and he discovered someplace even better.
Vic & Mosby are in Nimbin to begin illustrious careers as drug smugglers, but their own paranoia may end their dreams before they can begin.
Uncharted Dives 