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Medan, Indonesia
What household or grocery items do you wish you had shipped to post?
Mexican food, olive and any other kind of oil since the only one that is cheap here is palm oil.
Spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, some types of cereals, peanut butter since here it is expensive....
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We have only visited a few places. We enjoyed going to Snow Beach which is a river and tubing there. We have gone to a beach and it was ok but the beach was not...
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