Well a long day today so up late and had a relaxing breakfast before starting to work out our packing and doing a load of washing. We then heading out to find a coffee shop that sells Luwak Coffee or Civet Kopi (The civet eats the coffee berries for the beans' fleshy pulp, then in the digestive tract, fermentation occurs. The civet's proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines t...

After breakfast we headed by taxi to the old port district and visited the Maritime Museum, old wharf area before heading to Fatahiah Square and visiting Curency Museum, a small art gallery and lunch at Cafe Batavia. From here we went via a market area but it was not overly exciting so only had a quick look before returning to the hotel at around 4pm. We had the same driver the whole day (9am - 4pm) and had him wait whilst we did our exploring (3.5 hours at Fatah...

Up early for breakfast and after packing got a taxi the 8km trip to Ascott Jakarta after the one hour trip we made it. Was very nice to be upgraded to Two bedroom Executive. We then headed to meet Andrew S for lunch at Potato Head one of the bars in the chain he is CEO. After lunch headed to the National Museum then MONAS (National Statue). We decided to walk back to the hotel which in very humid conditions was maybe not the best idea. After a short rest at the h...

Up fairly early and at breakfast were met by Kia who explain that after discussions with Kenneth (big area boss) it had been decided that it would be better for me to do my exchange at Ascott Jakarta as it was more central and has a large shopping mall across the street and it was agreed that Tony and I would move there tomorrow. After breakfast we headed out to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (www.tamanmini.co.id) a huge cultural park and took in the sight. That ni...

Rising at 04.00 to make it for a 06.00 flight to Melbourne and then a straight forward checkin for the 09.30 fight to Jakarta. Tony and I were able to get an exit row over the wing and once we had taken off Tony was able to move across the isle to give us even more room. The flight was uneventful and we landed after the 7 hrs 20 mins flying time at around 2pm local time. After collecting our luggage and clearing immigration we headed outside to meet our driver to...