Last day in Jakarta

So after a whole week, I’m finally online again, but not for long, because I’m sitting in a cubicle at a cybercafe. Officially, they are a Business Service Center, but sending normal postcards seems to be very difficult for them
Finding it required an odyssey in the catacombs of the Ciputra mall (passing the “Gojim” = Gold’s Gym first), but it is worth it, because at the hotel they ask RP 50000 (EUR 3,50) per hour: almost as expensive as Schiphol, and you have to use it up in one go. Booh to Hotel Ciputra Jakarta. In Semarang it was free.

Anyway, as expected, I had a nice week full of fantastic meetings with many relatives: many old, many new. Not going somewhere for 20 years definitely improves your popularity, and my cellphone is hardly silent for more than an hour.
Great fun, great food, lots of laughs, lots of interesting sights. 3 weeks have passed, but it felt just I could easily add another 3 weeks. Even though its’ true what they said about Jakarta: it’s hot, has bad traffic, and not much entertainment except food and shopping (i.e. no parks and geocaches). Luckily all the great people make it worthwhile.

Well, more details later, since I’m running up a huge bill of 3000 Rp already, which is about EUR 0,21

Unfortunately, we’re flying back tonight already. Oh well, just savouring the last few hours here…