Two days after the just-referred-to banana pancake experience, I came down in the morning to find that there had been a fire in the middle of the night that damaged a little bit of Zanzibar and a lot of the Lanai restaurant next door. The small net hovel next to Lanai was totally destroyed. They say it was electrical in origin, but that is about all that everybody agrees on… Unfortunately it looks like this could be messy in more ways than one. Two of the busiest restaurants on the beach here and in addition to happening in the height of high season in August, the Indonesian Independence Day celebration is the 17th and it’s a huge day for commerce. Sad. At least no one was hurt.
