Friday, May 26, 2006

A bitter taste in paradise

Samoa truly is a beautiful country. Replete with amazing scenery and wonderful people, it is the quintessential tropical paradise. Such a shame then, that one of the first things visitors to this island paradise see is this advertisement in the baggage claim section of Faleolo airport. Even worse, the McDonald's is situated on the corner of the busiest traffic intersection in the heart of Apia; you can't avoid it.
It's not all bad though. If you can put up with that smell that permeates every McDonald's restaurant in the world (I'm sure it's the same smell everywhere) you can enjoy some of the cleanest restrooms available to the public in the country. Or so people say. After eight months in Samoa I still haven't ventured onto the premises.

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