Mercure Grand Hotel Surabaya

... lift we found colleagues and friends assembled with copious amounts of food and drink....and more presents!<br>It was a truly memorable evening and our thanks to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.................but especially to Viki for putting the whole thing together ....you're a star! (and to Luke for letting me stay till the end.......cheers mate!) Ex-pats rock!

... you connect to them via local buses. On the local buses apart from encountering the ubiquitous buskers they are also plied by hawkers selling drinks or food but in Surabaya they offered a new twist, plus a much greater range of items to buy. Within five minutes of being on the bus a hawker got on and started placing packets ...

... Il roulait super vite et il semblait vouloir conduire plus souvent a droite au lieu de gauche. Il ne tolerait aucun vehicule devant lui. Quelques depassement "cow-boy". Par contre un language routier difficille a saisir pour moi mais qui semble bien compris ici. Alors nos revoicie dans le monde civilisee a Sanur (Bali) pres de la plage que nous irons voir plus tard. Yessssss! Nous sommes revenue a la chaleur et l'humidite qui semble nous suivre. Bisouxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx France et Rejean

... is not worry about it. You just need to wear long sleeves and pants. Umm, I am not going to run in long sleeves and pants. So, I am taking the pills. Fun, fun! No weird reactions, which is good. Just interesting that a place I am traveling has malaria. This week, I have actually had a social life. Last night, I went out for surprise birthday celebration and Thursday night is ladies ...

The first volcanoe I visited. We began our journey around midnight with sleepy eyes but energetic heart. It took 3 hours to reach the first stop to change our vehicle to Jeep. The older style Jeep like the ones we see in the Indiana Jones movies. We traveled for another 2 hours to reach the mountain top . We supposed ...

... wait or ride a short ferry so they can run the AC. I'm not joking, but our bus idled for over 4 hours on this journey, drove for only 6. The rest was ferries, this is Indonesia. This volcano is supposed to be amazing, unbelievable, a highlight of all of SE Asia, that it is not. It wasn't as disappointing as the Terracotta Warriors, that will always be the benchmark for over hyped. It was a perfectly shaped volcano in ...

July 10, 2008 After about 9 hours, we arrived in a hostel about 3km from Mount Bromo. I was exhausted and went to bed early because I had wake up around 3:30am the next morning for the sunrise. I have paid for a jeep to take me to the viewpoint located on the highest hill so I can view the crater of Mount Bromo during sunrise. However, by the time I got to the viewpoint, there was huge crowd of at least 100 people. I had two problems, I had no clear view of ...

I spoke with a couple people on the airplane, while heading to Indo. The first spoke english fairly well. the second, did not speak at all. I didn't speak indonesian. So i attempted to write different phrases in indonesian to this person, and then see if i could translate it on the fly. it was very challenging. Even the airplane food was now indonesian. It was this really tasty rice, compact and held with banana leaves. Departing from the airplane, it took about an hour ...

Akhirnya sampai juga di Stasiun Gubeng Surabaya, lalu dijemput mbak Rini dan Mas Monot. Jalan-jalan di Surabaya pasti belum pas jika belum ke zangrandi, itu restoran es krim seperti di Ragusa kalo di Jakarta. Namun restoran es krim yang terletak di jalan Yos Sudarso ini mempunyai variasi es krim yang lebih banyak sampai es krim dari bir pun ada. Tak heran banyak sekali orang yang rela mengantri demi menikmati citarasa es krim italia yang sudah ...