Novotel Solo
Jalan Slamet Riyadi 272, Central Java Solo, Java, 57131, Indonesia
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A volcano on Java
I hot-footed it from Thailand through Penninsula Malaysia and onto the Island of Summatra, Indonesia. I now had a reason to move because I had lined up joining a sailing boat in the Philippines in January. Looking at Malaysia could wait until Borneo I thought. I stayed with someone I met in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur so I only saw the Petronas Towers from the tube but I'm a bit cities schmitties these days.
When I thought about what to do ...
Three days in Solo
... dances, but also of the athletes and officials, coming from all members of ASEAN (the Association of South-East Asian Nations). The official opening ceremony is being held tomorrow at Solo's main stadium, with the Vice-President of Indonesia and the Minister for Sport being present there.
I might pop over to see some of the events if I have the time, but there's so much to do in Solo and so little time that I probably won't get around to it.
~ John (AB) Citizen
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Visiting royalty, palaces
... had started to drizzle a bit when we were leaving the restaurant, but after a few minutes of driving, the heavens opened. As many have remarked before, it's not rain, but just a mass of water falling, such is the volume and intensity of it. Apparently this is the normal intensity of the rain here, but I've only seen rain like this in Cairns and during severe thunderstorms in Melbourne.
Due to the rain, which continued well into the night, we were holed up for the rest of ...
Finally arrived in Solo!
... often runs along.
We arrived at the house and parked, with the aid of the one of the many government-supplied orange-shirted parking/traffic attendants who are basically everywhere, in a small garage which somehow holds four cars. There is a pharmacy at the front of the property and the house is at the rear.
After showing me around the house, we went out to dinner. Firstly, we went to pick up my friend's sister's dinner to take home, as ...
Vulkanen, steden en aapjes
... gesneuveld zijn. Het ereveld lag op een heuvel midden in de drukke stad. Echter zodra we door de poort heengingen was er rust. Het gras was groen, de bloemen in volle bloei en de vogels en vlinders fladderden rond. Het was mooi om te zien met hoeveel respect deze plaats behandeld wordt. We hebben vooral aandacht geschonken aan de maten van opa, de jongens die in zijn Bataljon zaten. Het besef kwam dat ze allemaal nog zo jong waren, rond de 22 jaar. Dan ga je ...



