Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist James Joyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.

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We headed to Wild Honey, which appeared to be the poshest restaurant in town, and ordered dirty martinis with blue-cheese olives and a dozen local Pine Island oysters with pineapple mignonette.

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Zalambessa looks like a very clean suburban town - even from the destroyed town one can not see a dirty house.

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With that in mind, it sounds like it's time for a movie of love, loss, big bucks and dirty dealing set in the oil sands boom town of Calgary.

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