Posted in The Trip on Apr 14th, 2006
Hugging the north coast and then swinging down south into central Java, we arrived in the city of Yogyakarta (or Jogja, as the locals call it). It is a popular tourist destination that is considered to be the very heart of Javanese culture and handcrafts. All classical Javanese arts (batik painting, wooden and shadow puppet [...]
Posted in The Trip on Apr 9th, 2006
For us in Europe when you speak of Indonesia most people think of aromatic coffee, the resort island of Bali, and the loudest ‘bang’ in the history of the mankind – Krakatau. It had been a childhood dream of Nic’s to one day visit world’s most famous volcano – ever since seeing the disaster movie [...]
Posted in The Trip on Apr 7th, 2006
We spent a day in Pekanbaru, deliberating over the difficult dilemma of how to cross Indonesia. The facts were: 1. We had to cover 4000kms 2. We had to do a minimum of 6 ferry crossings from island to island to get to Timor (some ferries only running once a week or less frequently) 3. [...]
Posted in The Trip on Apr 1st, 2006
We caught the highly efficient Singapore ferry from the World Trade Centre, to the Indonesian island of Karimun – a slightly unconventional jumping-off point for Sumatra, but much nicer than the traditional stop-by island of Batam, just off the coast of Singapore. In true Singaporean style our departure at the ferry terminal was highly clean [...]
Posted in The Trip on Mar 31st, 2006
Singapore…as all the tourist t-shirts put it: “A fine city”. It is indeed a city of ‘fines’ – one for almost every conceivable public offence. Some quite expected, but some really obscure… There is for example a hefty fine for not flushing a public toilet, for chewing gum (anywhere in the whole city!!!), or even [...]
Posted in The Trip on Mar 30th, 2006
We were on the cusp of leaving Singapore – though some of our admin was still incomplete – when Sedef got in touch with Andrew Tinney, an old boss back in the UK, who now lives in Singapore. It was rather unlikely that we would hear from him since he travels a lot for work. [...]
Posted in The Trip on Mar 26th, 2006
We arrived in Singapore a day later than we expected, on the 23rd of March. It had taken us 2 weeks to cover Malaysia, no mean feat considering we covered over 1000kms and a whopping great mountain in the middle. We were tired but happy to know that we were to have a little rest [...]
Posted in The Trip on Mar 24th, 2006
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Posted in The Trip on Mar 24th, 2006
Our first impressions of Malaysia were rather jumbled as in three days time we went from a flashy expensive island resort (Langkawi) to a heavy Chinese influenced city (Georgetown) and then the predominantly Muslim mainland. We had expected Malaysia to be very similar to Thailand foodwise. However we were surprised to see how much the [...]
Posted in The Trip on Mar 21st, 2006
After a couple of day’s rest in the cool of the Highlands, we thought it would be fairly plain sailing down the mountains towards the East Coast of Malaysia. We wanted to cycle south to Singapore by the 22nd of March latest – to stay with friends Dean and Jessica who have a house down [...]
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