At the airport about to leave for Jakarta and Bogor. My week in Yogya has been very fruitful, and it's a town worth visiting. The classes at Realia school have been useful even if I still have a long way before holding a conversation! Indonesian is not particularly difficult, I am just particularly useless at languages... I still say spanish words by mistake (which I guess will be useful for later in the year when in South America). The main highlight of the las...

Day 3 at the language school and head is about to explode. Think have not had to remember so many new things since uni! I am making progress however can still see the look of despair on my teachers when they have to repeat every sentence word by word for me to make sense of it. It will be some time before i can have a conversation! The school is in the north of Yogya, which is really the modern side of town, slightly on the outskirts so not much to do around. Ac...

Friday: Took the 8am train from Gambir. They told me to get there an hour before, but I am not sure why as the train only turned up 10 mins before and it's reservations only. Trains are great, air con, loads of leg room and seat back better than on planes. They have TV on which shows movies or music videos. And the journey is lovely, going through villages, rice fields and by mountains. I wasn't quite sure how to order food so survived on a bag of crisps. Took ...