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From Adelaide to Jakarta.
Day one of our Indonesian week saw us fly from Adelaide to Sydney to connect with our flight to Jakarta. In Sydney we had an hour's sojourn in the First Class Qantas Lounge where we had our sit down lunch;for me Warm Duck salad washed down with French champagne and a Tasmanian Reisling. Very nice. then on to a packed plane for the 7 hour flight. …
Jogja - Bandung - Jakarta !
... of nowhere too, such a massive queue and all the people in the villages had come out to look. There were motorbikes 8 wide on the lane all wrestiling for the smallest gap. We saw quite a few accidents too. It was just mental !! When we first got on the bus we got really excited as there was loads of leg room and each chair had a leg rest so it was pretty much a bed, then we got to our designated seats were there was the least amount of leg room and no leg ...
Flight to Jakarta
... and wait 5 mins for the van to arrive. All in all 1hr from plane touchdown to taxi boarding. It was warm, but not too humid. We drove into the Jakarta night. Scooters everywhere and cramped roads. The cross-points had traffic lights with a count-down timer. 3-2-1 GO! And everybody was off, no-one cared much about ...
The Big Durian
... br> Then it's off to the old town square where we have lunch in the original Cafe Batavia. It's expensive and not the best Nasi Goreng we've had, but the interior of the old building is evocative of Graeme Greene, Agatha Cristie and a host of other icons of the early 20th century. In the big square outside people are enjoying their day off, cycling, juggling, eating ice creams and generally doing what people do the world over on such days. As some of the few westerners here we ...
Ça se cultive à Java !
... vivre un an en Malaisie pour travailler (c’est très courant de partir vivre à l’étranger pour le travail, loin de toute sa famille, parfois pendant plusieurs années). Ces « cérémonies » ont lieu pour fêter un heureux évènement familial. On s’attendait à un repas de famille mais c’est en fait une cérémonie religieuse : des imans sont invités à prier pour cette tante et tous les musulmans en général. C’était assez particulier, ...
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