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) A huge blaze was kindled , in thick snow , to warm freezing hands and feet ; traditional soup and sausages cooked , eaten with bread and frozen ketchup . In Germany we parted : Pam to London to visit her parents , Ian to Rome to visit the Food and Agriculture Organization , a UN agency that he is doing digital library work for. ( He came away with a cheque for US $ 50K for the research project , so it was worth it . A GIS-based map can combine information that is found in hundreds of traditional maps . This was , after all , a company that deliberately looted the states of California and Washington to the tune of $ 11 billion ; a company in which traders openly gloated over the manipulation of energy markets for the purpose of driving up prices and profits . “ Forty Stories ” is absolutely beautiful to read , and Barthelme is deadly serious about life and people and love and morality , but he ’ s not so serious about telling a story in a traditional way . Overseas for fifteen months , she had a great time in Calgary ( we had left her there at the beginning of her trip on returning to New Zealand ourselves ) , London , where she lived in a house in Ealing with fifteen Kiwis , visited Ian 's family in Northern Ireland and Pam 's brother near Toulouse , and then returned to Calgary - - where ( as we reported last year ) she got her old job back , working in a health club , and seemed to be very happy . Among them was Ni Yulan , who accused the police of beating and crippling her in 2002 , when she was jailed for one year for protesting against being forcibly evicted her from her house . Here 's a final image : a traditional cowboy breakfast with two visitors , one from Berlin and the other from New Zealand , Ian cooking pancakes bacon and coffee on a blazing campfire , watching the sun low over a prairie lake near Lethbridge - - wait for it - - setting , a gorgeous and unforgettable breakfast sunset . And on the way back to Hamilton we ate delicious kebabs at a favourite haunt : Esmerelda 's traditional Lebanese / Maori kitchen in Papakura , alongside taxi drivers and people dining out in their pyjamas ... And I think that people are more capable of sorting through that information in a meaningful way than we give them credit for.