Bandung
Trip Start
May 03, 2007
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Trip End
??? ??, 2008
Bandung,
Indonesia
Monday, December 17, 2007
We took train to Bandung and the first guy we spoke to on the station new a local guy we had been friendly with in Batukaras. He walked us to a nearby hotel that was perfect for our needs. However, i have a tendency to become extremely tetchy when i am lugging my backpack and day pack over anything further than about 200 metres. This walk was not much more than a say 800 metres, but coming up to the half way mark i was about ready to shoot a kitten in the face. I was angrier than usual and having trouble controlling my boiling mood. Picking your way among the streets of south east Asia is usually not the easiest proposition, but encumbered with two heavy backpacks that insulate your heat in an already very uncomfortable climate - sweaty, sticky, sweaty, and sweaty - can get right up my nose. Just as well Tweeks was playing it cool and we negotiated the streets without committing any gun crime. Good job too really.
Bandung has the reputation as a cool clothes design and media centre of Java. We didn't stumble across this, but did find a shopping plaza with cheap PSP downloads - W00T11! - a skating rink, and shops to keep us stupefied until evening.
