Caecil left us at 10:15, took a taxi to the airport (where she was picked up by a friend), and thereafter went by car to Graz, to join a wedding ceremony she had previously been invited to. She would join us later in Budapest. So for a couple of days, the Gang of Four was […]
It is now two years ago since I moved to Balikpapan, and the time has finally come to move again. So tomorrow, at 13:40, I will be flying to Jakarta. I have packed two paper cartons of my belongings which will be sent separately next Wednesday. The rest I will just bring on the plane. […]
We arrived early in the morning (on-time) at Frankfurt airport from Jakarta/Singapore. In the passport control, Saras (did she look suspicious?) was asked where she was going and what she was doing here, and had to show her Paris hotel booking (which was cancelled beforehand and only used as a means to obtain the Schengen […]
Tour Europe 2009 officially began with the taxi trip to Sepinggan Airport, Balikpapan, before catching a Rp 500k Mandala flight to Jakarta, where we took a shuttle bus from the new terminal 3 to the old terminal 2. We had around 4 hours to kill in terminal 2 until Luftwaffe was scheduled to bring us […]
My Asian adventure has now lasted exactly two years, and according to the tradition, I have constructed a GPS map showing all new locations where I have spent at least one night the previous year (and not visited the first year). I have divided the map in two, one for locations in Asia, and the […]