By Pete McKenzie
On a sweltering afternoon late last year, I sat in an ice-cream parlour in Suva, the capital of the remote Pacific nation of Fiji, and ate a croissant waffle topped with vanilla ice cream, chopped peanuts and honey. Despite the parlour’s unpromising location, on a street crammed with second-hand shops, boarded-up pharmacies and tropical-themed cafés, its interior gleamed: large, illuminated snowflakes dangled from the ceiling, and a wall of giant white letters spelled out the words “Snowy House”.
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