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Indo Here We Go!
12:30
Right so here I am again, blogging about my travels rather than firing off hundreds of emails individually!
For those of you who don't know, my good friend Hemma accompanied me on the arduous and delay ridden flight from Gatwick to Jakarta via Dubai. Granted our delays weren't particularly severe but delays before take-off, delays before landing and a failed attempt at landing tend to grate after a while!
Anyway, flying is boring! We arrived into Jakarta and I discovered Indonesia's first little nuances - Signs are for wimps. Fairly bedraggled and overwhelmed by everything going on around us, we finally found the forms we needed to get our visa and joined the queue of all queues! Annoyingly everyone with a child saw it as their god given right to be at the front of said queue - having a child is your choice, bringing them to Indonesia is your choice, these choices don't make you better than everyone else ergo, get to the back of the line!
Immigration out of the way, bags collected, we met up with my parents friend, Rob's driver - Zul. He drove us the hour long journey to Rob's compound. Once there, we showered, had some pizza and grabbed some much needed sleep!
After a fairly tumultuous nights sleep which I'm going to blame on the chronologically based abuse my body had been through in the past 24 hours, both Hemma and I woke fairly late! Rob's maid had laid on an amazing breakfast! Suitably fed and watered, we set about planning what we were going to do. Both Rob and the Lonely Planet said Jakarta was a hard pill to swallow so we looked elsewhere. On Rob's advice, we set our sights on Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta). Based on diminishing sunshine and rolling clouds we ran for the pool to catch some rays!
Poolside we did a little more planning and I played with my camera - I learnt quite a bit just with fiddling, probably quite obvious to those in the know but I was proud nonetheless!
As the evening rolled in (which is super early here - around 6pm!), we both showered and head to a Dutch bar by the name of 'De Hooi'. We ate, we drank and we ogled the hideous fat westerner and his meeting with a pimp and his hoe! Sly photo will follow shortly! Time flew, 1am rolled around and it was time for bed, a 5am wake up awaits us...
For those of you who don't know, my good friend Hemma accompanied me on the arduous and delay ridden flight from Gatwick to Jakarta via Dubai. Granted our delays weren't particularly severe but delays before take-off, delays before landing and a failed attempt at landing tend to grate after a while!
Anyway, flying is boring! We arrived into Jakarta and I discovered Indonesia's first little nuances - Signs are for wimps. Fairly bedraggled and overwhelmed by everything going on around us, we finally found the forms we needed to get our visa and joined the queue of all queues! Annoyingly everyone with a child saw it as their god given right to be at the front of said queue - having a child is your choice, bringing them to Indonesia is your choice, these choices don't make you better than everyone else ergo, get to the back of the line!
Immigration out of the way, bags collected, we met up with my parents friend, Rob's driver - Zul. He drove us the hour long journey to Rob's compound. Once there, we showered, had some pizza and grabbed some much needed sleep!
After a fairly tumultuous nights sleep which I'm going to blame on the chronologically based abuse my body had been through in the past 24 hours, both Hemma and I woke fairly late! Rob's maid had laid on an amazing breakfast! Suitably fed and watered, we set about planning what we were going to do. Both Rob and the Lonely Planet said Jakarta was a hard pill to swallow so we looked elsewhere. On Rob's advice, we set our sights on Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta). Based on diminishing sunshine and rolling clouds we ran for the pool to catch some rays!
Poolside we did a little more planning and I played with my camera - I learnt quite a bit just with fiddling, probably quite obvious to those in the know but I was proud nonetheless!
As the evening rolled in (which is super early here - around 6pm!), we both showered and head to a Dutch bar by the name of 'De Hooi'. We ate, we drank and we ogled the hideous fat westerner and his meeting with a pimp and his hoe! Sly photo will follow shortly! Time flew, 1am rolled around and it was time for bed, a 5am wake up awaits us...
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