Lani’s Indian Tandoori, Puerto del Carmen

Lani’s is a chain of restaurants on Lanzarote. Each restaurant has a culinary theme on which the menu is based.

If you follow the Avenida de la Playas long enough, you eventually come to Lani’s Indian Tandoori, serving a variety of Indian dishes, but also a selection of standard cuisine for people prefer something else. This can be useful if you are in a group and not everyone is into Indian food – other Indian restaurants tend only to have Indian dishes and are therefore not so suitable.

Although the food is good, I find this restaurant a bit pricey – starting from the bread rolls and butter, and continuing with the size of the portions and the fact that for most things you have to pay extra for rice. So to make it worthwhile, you really do want to have good Indian food in a restaurant that is not doing exclusively that.

Unfortunately, the German translation of the menu takes some deciphering as it is often a literal translation from English, leaving the German tourist completely baffled as to what is on offer.

For visitors to the old town of Puerto del Carmen it is also a long way to walk (about 45 minutes, if you don’t stop to look at the souvenir shops on the way!).

To reserve a table, call 928 841 051.

A longer motorway trip

Yesterday I had to go to Mainz so I was able to see how the bio-ethanol car performed long-distance on the motorway – to be precise along the A66, which has speed limits on most of it of 120 or 100 km/h.

Anyway, there’s nothing much to report about the car’s performance, except the fuel consumption which, according to the on-board computer, hovered between 8 an 9 litres per 100km.

At the moment I am waiting to see how far I get on one tank of bio-ethanol.  Taking the km driven so far and adding on the expected km that the computer says I have remaining, it’s going to be about 500km in total, which is certainly less than I managed in a similar car using normal petrol.  I’ll know more in a few days…

A diplomatic mistake?

Yahoo! reported yesterday that the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia is to be asked to explain why he was photographed next to a convicted criminal. He already made himself unpopular by criticising one of Evo Morales’ quips about moving the U.N. away from New York.

Of course, the ambassador represents his or her own country in an official capacity. Normally it is inappropriate for such people to criticise a country’s leader.

The photo is interesting because it also features Gabriel Dabdoub, a businessman who opposes President Morales. Is it really the criminal on the photo who’s the problem?

I guess for the U.S. media, standing next to a criminal from Colombia is actually more of a scoop than a businessman would be.  But since the criminal is now behind bars, perhaps the Bolivian Government is getting a bit worried about who the U.S. ambassador is socialising with?

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