Well, I'm back in NEaB, having safely arrived home from the Bastion of California.  For those of you that weren't around on the docks when I came back, I brought back a large box full of cherries and strawberries, lovingly packaged for the citizens of NEaB to enjoy!  Alas, only a few people managed to eat them before they all started to ferment simultaneously (the climate here is very different from that in the Bastion).  Nasrudin and I therefore had to finish all the leftover fruits.  We are still suffering from bad gas in our digestive tracts, but hopefully will have recovered fully in a few days.

 Anyhow, when I came back from my vacation, I realized that there were a lot of responsibilities for me to shoulder up - not only did I have my job as a staff writer and Island Manager, but many other real-life projects to work on as well.  I have therefore sadly concluded that for now, my blog writing will have to go onto a temporary hiatus. There are simply too many other pressing matters that I must attend to.  

I will still be using this blog for photos, and for updating the general public on developments in Jhal-Abur, but most of my writings will be published in the gazette instead, as I feel that it would better reach NEaBians there.  I also plan to start a new column, 'Culinary Journeys with TaliaSolo', in which I go out to eat every Saturday and review two restaurants in NEaB.  If you have a restaurant you'd like me to review, let me know.

Whatever remaining time I have will be spent continuing to develop Jhal-Abur.  I've made a laundry list of some things I did recently; hopefully more progress will come soon.

-Worked on my Island Agency
-Created a Deluxe Ferry to Kariq (starts from Ahmad Docks)
-created 2D locations for some of Ahmad's shops
-added strawberry patch to the Botanical Gardens