Java Paragon Hotel & Residences Surabaya

As well as having our good friends Yasmin and Farook staying from Hong Kong, we also had 2 amazing surprises on our 40th (!)<br>After tennis and a swim, I was just emerging from the shower, when I heard David answering the door .... I just threw on a pareo thinking it was the house boys coming in to clean, and scurried past the hallway into the lounge, glancing at the front door ...

Today is my last day in Surabaya, I have purchased my train ticket to Semarang. Prices are still up and I had to pay for the full fare to Jakarta. The ticket for executive class from Surabaya to Jakarta is 440,000. I am told that the prices will be going down on October 4th!!!

... and mighty early stages of the Yangtze River. I met Adi, my Israeli friend who I would run into repeatedly in SE Asia, and enjoyed the finest and freshest Chinese food I have ever eaten at the lodges along the trail. 4) Hoi An, Viet Nam: Partying and Wading the Flooded River: With a crew from our Ha Long Bay adventures, Brad, Esther, Richard, Raza and I ...

Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien (ma phrase favorite) Nous devons vous faire un resume de notre disparition vers le Mont-Bromo. (pas d'internet bien entendu les volcans font sans doute des signaux de fumee donc pas besoin d'internet. hihi) Nous avons quitte Gogya le matin (2 janvier) pour se payer un petit trajet de 11 heures de bus. Nous sommes arrive tres tard a notre guest house. Tres mignon, genre chalet non insonorise et non isole. Donc nous avons eu droit a un taux d ...

... J'etais un peu vexe de voir leur aisance. Un autre 8km a marcher pour le retour. Nous avons quand meme bien apprecier ses marches puisque nous avions une popularite sans conteste. Les jeunes voulaient des photos, des salutations etc. . . . On nous meme offert des choux, nos poches etaient trop petite on a refuse. Au souper, nous avons bien bavarder avec notre nouveau copain, tres interessant de comparer nos mondes et opinions. (un dentiste malais qui vit a Londre et qui est d ...

... on the upper sheer layer and then the bottom layer was orange sequins. I loved it and thought it would be so appropriate for my christmas celebration in south east asia. I do not know how many times in my life that I will be able to get away with wearing a dress like that. The only person that I knew that was going to be at the ball was my boss Larry. Most of the other teachers felt like the ball was just too expensive to go ...

Well here we are - with a joint-cross-curricula-whole-of-Key-Stag e-3 project on ....volcanoes - creative writing, report writing, Geography, Science, Art, DT.... and bonding skills brought about by the need for collaborative clearing up!!!(luckily David's classroom is bigger and has the running water available) All (12) of them have become thoroughly involved, and various ...

... what was not so exciting was waking up the following morning at an unknown hour in the darkness of pre-dawn. we were supposed to have gotten a wake up call at 3:30 am. if by "wake up call", the proprietor meant the random distant crowing of roosters at inopportune morning hours, then get a wakeup call we did, i suppose. there was no other semblance of anything remotely close to a real wake up call, however, and we were shocked into wakefulness upon discovering that the ...

Well, we've never been in three countries in one day before. That's been interesting (and tiring!) We had breakfast in Singapore, lunch in Malaysia, and dinner in Indonesia. We left Singapore and made the reverse trip back to the airport without any bother. We arrived in Surabaya just in time for rush hour traffic. Although, we have since realised that any time of the day is rush hour traffic. For some reason, I never really thought of Indonesia as being heavily ...

... excellent bircher muesli and amazing brown bread toasted with real, creamy butter (you have no idea how sublime good toast and butter can be when you've had very poor imitations for so long!). It was a self-indulgent and quite extravagant 24 hours but it felt great! So I can't tell you anything about Surabaya I'm afraid, except that it has some shopping malls and some nice hotels. (R)