Been travelling for 2 days and we are now in Jakarta at the Resort Hotel near the airport. I’m sitting in the triple share hotel room with Henry and Lottie. Me and Lottie are sharing a rather small double bed. The hotel was completely above expectations; there is an amazing pool with hot and cold Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room and gym. I braved my fear of cold water and managed to go in the cold Jacuzzi once, Louise was the best at it and actually she quite enjoyed it which is a bit odd. Me and Jess shared 3 courses for tea and they were all super yummy, plus serious drink envy over her orange juice and Lottie’s banana milk shake which had vanilla ice cream in it.
I was eyeing up the fellow travellers at Newcastle Airport to see if there were any despicable possible seat next to me candidates. Luckily there were no obese people (salad dodgers). I was hoping to sit next to some quiet middle-aged man who just said hello and maybe an interesting tale or two but nothing more. Instead I ended up sitting next to a young guy called Tom which was a bit of a disaster because he wanted to talk the whole way and I just wanted to watch a film and sleep. Nevertheless, he turned out to be quite fun although we got super drunk on red wine mixed with coke and extra strong vodka oranges served by Yui. There was an amazing air hostman called Guille from Paraguay and we spoke in Spanish to him for a bit.
I sat next to Lottie for the Dubai-Jakarta flight which was possibly one of the longest flights I’ve ever been on as it was too weird time to sleep, yet too tired to read or open my eyes to watch movies. We watched Hercules together which was really good and I also watched How to Tame a Dragon, the black dragon was so cute.
So far Indonesia trip is turning out well after fearful expectations of terrorist attacks and plane crashes. We have the 5 hour Batavia air tomorrow and have to get up at 5am but I’m feeling OK about that one too now seeing as there are so many of us.