The Ritz Carlton Pacific Place Jakarta

... city. We hopped in a taxi and off we went. Jakarta has a bit of a reputation for it’s slow moving traffic as we soon found out when we hit our first traffic jam only 500 meters out of the airport terminal. We spent the next hour and a half watching the minutes tick down as our taxi driver drove like a maniac, swapped from lane to lane (in normal South East Asian style!) to the Qantas office. We got there at 5.05, 5 minutes ...

... Fahrer gefragt wie lange er denkt, daß es noch dauert.... 'also, das dauert noch sehr lange, wollen sie ein anderes Taxi?'. Nein danke, also hab ich mich auf den Weg zur Hauptstraße gemacht und hab noch 10min gewartet, bis ein freies Express Taxi vorbeikam. Das hat mich dann zum Bus Terminal Lebak Bulus gebracht, von da sollte ja der Bus fahren. Hab mich also durchgefragt und der Bus fuhr gerade los, als ich um die Ecke gebogen bin - gut, daß die hier immer alle warten! Man hatte ...

... di un bel sedile reclinabile rotto, si ha diritto ad una seggiola di legno oppure ad una cassetta di plastica dove sedersi sul corridoio. Inutile dire che e' troppo anche per me: forse per un due/tre ore, ma non per due giorni. Il tizio di fianco a me viaggia in economica, ma mi fa una pena incredibile soprattutto quando cerca di addormentarsi su quel trespolo. Io sono gia' riuscito a farmi una pennica di qualche ora, quindi gli offro di fare cambio di posto per un paio d'ore: mi ha ...

... t cancel him because I know that he rented the car he used to pick me at the hotel and escort me. Foolish me. He offered the Jimbaran Dinner, which I refused. After I refuse the Jimbaran Dinner, he recommends me his 'itinerary', which then I found out to be a waste of time. We first travel to Sukowati, a market near Kuta and Sanur, and then having a lunch in an extraordinary no-good expensive restaurant ( which then I found out from my friend is having the same mechanism as the ...

... was no worries though.
As i waited another 45minutes for the ferry to load up with a few more cars and passengers, i watched as a couple of little kids jumped over the side into the murky brown water for money. Hell of a current there too, people would chuck screwed up 1000Rp notes (about 10 cents) and they'd swim over and grab them. They'd also chuck over whatever rubbish they'd just finished eating or drinking out of like it was no facking problem. 'Yeah just throw it over and let ...

... y de este espacio no os podeis mover..... VIVA LA RACIONALIDAD!!!! Y asi en ese circulo vicioso nos quedamos mas de dos horas, ademas nadie nos atendia, mas bien el completo personal nos ignoraba.... despues de suplicar y poner mi carita de susto, al final sucumbimos al soborno, que con mi carita llego a rebajarse a unos 20 euros de unos 150 que nos pedian.... aquello fue absurdo y sin sentido comun, pero era imposible hacerles entender, y yo, confieso tenia ...

... of my parents were coming too....they did not seem very happy at the thought of me wondering around some strange cities mostly by myself...well...if I told them that I would be going on most of my trips alone, they would not have agreed to it in the first place, so I had to put a little twist here and there saying that Nina, my best friend, were going to America because her husband just won the Eisenhower award which ...

... to finish. I have sat through hurricanes and watched tornadoes, but nothing can compare to feeling the actual earth shaking under you. The power was so belittling, well all we could do was hope for the best. The best part was, when it finished, there was just us and the employees, so we skipped all the lines of 20 or so people and had 3 people check us out! Outside, nobody acted as if anything had happened. Through the ...

... mooiste golfbaan van Azie. Dit keer dus geen opportunistische promotionele praat van onze zijde maar onafhankelijke bronnen die zeggen dat dit wel zeer de moeite waard moet zijn (voor de liefhebers kijk op http://www.nirwanabaligolf.com. We hebben in dit geval maar een half woord nodig. En zo staan we twee dagen later tussen de rijstvelden met clubs en caddies in de aanslag voor een potje twilight golf. Bij hole 7 aangekomen zien we tot onze verassing van ...

... in the dark at 4.30am. The walk was 2 hours up hill through shrubs and forest. Most people hire a jeep and a driver for about 2 pounds each and it takes 35 mins. But we saved that 2 pounds, oh yes. And with that 2 pounds I managed to buy coffee and snacks because we were all bloody freezing at the top. I don't want to say it but once again the sunrise was a cloudy cold disappointment shared with about 500 taiwanese ...