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[Tara Sersen]

	Adamantius said
	This may actually be based more on some perception that drinking is
	healthier and/or more necessary in certain climates than on any
	assumption that Ozzies are a bunch of habitual inebriates. Of
course,
	that assumption may exist as well, justified or not. 

Yes, that's it pretty much. I can't speak for the Ozzies, but I know the
English drink a lot more than New Zealanders. I was actually quite shocked
by how much they drank when I first got here (and by how much the British
smoke, also). Which is not to claim that some Kiwis don't drink excessively,
just on the whole we drink a heck of a lot less than the English assume.

	Probably the best way to find an American-type bar would be to
either
	visit the chains as described above, or to check the lobbies of
various
	big hotels. Or, perhaps strangely enough, you might try asking an
	American employee of one of the international news services or one
of
	the several English-language international newspapers. For example,
I
	believe even long after the New York Herald-Tribune went bust, the
	International Herald-Tribune was going strong, and their journalists
and
	such were reputed to be fairly serious drinkers who would have been
able
	to tell you how to, when in Rome, do as an American does.   

Yes, I'd heard that reporters were skilled at finding bars. And to think, I
almost became one myself! Well, I am pretty good at sniffing out
winebars...<grin>

Ciao
Lucrezia



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