Jw Marriott Hotel Surabaya

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!!!

... accompagner de 200 personnes et presqu'autant de jeep. La populace ici. Pas de levee de soleil, trop de nuage. Nous voulons rester plus longtemps avec espoir de voir mieux, disension au sein du groupe du jeep. Donc on nous avons ete abandonne sur le sommet. Mais un jeune samaritain (un gars de la beauce) nous a donner un lift. Ouffff, 10km de moin dans nos jambes pour la journee. Vive l'entraide quebecoise. On le remerci car on a eu droit a une petit eclairci qui nous ...

... I can't believe that I am coming home this weekend. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to seeing everyone. Its hard to feel like its the holidays without the cold weather, Christmas music and being surrounded by the people that I love. I can't wait to see you all. I feel so lucky and thankful to be hear. My life the last 5 months has been a whirlwind of adventures and challenges. I can't wait to see what the ...

... more contemporary feeling to it than Semarang. The broad streets here also flood with amazing ease in one afternoon rain shower but otherwise they are dryer, cleaner and wider than elsewhere, lined with more modern buildings and an array of monuments to commemorate its status as "city of heroes" in Indonesia's modern history..



The main square has an impressive white government building with a unique mix of Bauhaus architecture and classic style ...

More random thoughts - David spent yesterday in the thick of Surabaya squalor photographing the shanty town life beside the filthy river...while I had a girlie day with 2 colleagues shopping for fabric for ball gowns, trousers, blouses etc. and being measured by tailors etc. as well as lunch at the Sheraton followed by dinner at the Raffles of ...

... we had selected, brought what we thought was chopped ginger (which we love) to sprinkle on our food and into our soup....only it wasn't - our Indonesian wasn't up to finding out what it was and anyway our mouths were frozen (bit of an oxymoron) by the fiery spiciness of whatever it was - you have never seen Bintang (local beer) disappear so fast!

... the top of the crater and felt that I had escaped the grasp of hell. As I was walking back down I met a family of tourists and as it turns out they are from California. It's rare to meet Americans since their idea of traveling is going to Hawaii or Cancun. We chatted as we walked down together. They had two little girls with them and I wonder why they would bring them to place like this. Suddenly, one of the girls cut in front of me and fell. I was in the middle of my ...

Room for rent For rent 5 big rooms all accomodated with: - AC - luxury furniture with springbed - bathrom and toilet inside - hot and cold water. Location new house in a exclusive area: - CP Semolowaru Regency with 24 on 7 security - nearby universities like ITS, Unair, Sticom, Ubaya, Unitomo and Untag - shopping area Galaxy Mall. - hospital Dr Soetomo, Asrama Haji Sby, Rs Putri, Rs International ext. Price ...

... explicit reference ("Last Tuesday...") or by little helper words (just, already, almost, about to). The tricky part of the language comes from different status levels, much like Japanese. There are lots of different words for "you" depending upon the relative status levels of the speaker and the listener. RELIGION While most of Indonesia is Muslim, Islam never got a strong hold on Bali. Bali was converted to Hindu back a little later than 1000 AD ...

... us tickets to Surabaya for 17,500 rupiah but we turned him down, said we'd buy a regular ticket in the terminal. At that point, we were shown to the "info centre" where we were greeted by the guy from the street selling us official tickets for 8,000 rupiah! Then we were directed to follow some guy to the bus who tried to scam us, either with phoney tickets or regular tickets at air-con prices, we're not sure which, but he became awfully scarce ...