Thursday, May 10

Postcard from Jakarta

I've been off the radar for the past couple of weeks, enjoying some well-earned (or so I believe!) R&R in Jakarta. Thanks to all for the emails, and now that I'm in the US, I will be back online. I had an amazing couple of weeks with Tin. It was a little too hard to leave.


Traffic in Jakarta is something to behold, but our driver kept us safe, that is until he disappeared a week into my stay!


Without a driver, we turned to the local Bajaj to take us around.




Spent a fair bit of time exploring Jakarta's malls, including our "local" Mal Taman Anggrek.


Lots of bargains, you could even pick up a copy of Riverview's finest! Yes, that's El Rancho's very own Jess McPhail on the cover!!


Plenty of stuff to do around the house ... Mille kept me entertained.


Lots of good food, even the odd half-decent cup of coffee.


Our own police escort to see Spiderman 3 at Planet Hollywood. Good to see they've left a space for me on the wall of fame.




Some more sights and sounds in and around Jakarta, apparently the world's 11th largest city.


You didn't have to go far to shop, pretty much everything came past the house on wheels.


My Indonesian improved, from no knowledge, to "very little" knowledge.

A US update will be coming in the near future.

6 comments:

ToNyAKAsErG said...

Missing ya mate!.. enjoy ur adventure in the US.. and when u become famous.. dont forget us.. especially not b00f.. he loves u like a man loves his beer..

*jessix* said...

Great to see pics of you & Tin...And to hear Tin's voice too! You look like you were getting comfy over there. And who knew I was famous hey?!xx

Anonymous said...

Great to hear ur doing well mate- enjoy yourself...

Anonymous said...

Oh wow, look at the pwwwretty couple. Nice to hear you guys caught some smooching time. Tin - how does he fair up, better than expected???

the b00f™ said...

the b00f™ heard brycie snogs like a one armed taiwanese plumber... (take from that what you will?)

gooder to hear u made ur flights there big boy. And whilst the b00f™ might like his beer, he doesn't like u that much - when did u leave again?

And tOny, next time u think u can improvise on the sayings of the b00f™, u might want to "quote" the original or u might end up out on ur ear (other than when u have had a few too many).

Clare said...

YAY FOR TIN TIN!

YAY FOR BRYCE!


BUT MOSTLY FOR TIN TIN!!


:)