Day 69 (Bandung)

Today we had an early start to make sure we got to the port in time for either the 9.30am or 10am ferry that was taking us to Java for our next stop, Bandung. The drive took us through Jakarta (or a portion of it) and wasn't as long as the last few days - or at least didn't seem to be.

The ferry crossing was incredibly smooth compared to the last rust-bucket we were on, and it felt like we were barely moving. A good number of us sat inside watching a horror movie (nothing like scares at 9.30am) where we were following the plot using the English subtitles. Thankfully there wasn't a whole lot of dialogue, just lots of screaming. The recurring sound was from the ghost character who followed everyone around singing 'jamu ne'...I've no idea what it means but it was creeping Una out so I'm going to record it and use it as the alarm noise tomorrow morning...I'll keep you posted on how that works out! She is working on her blog entry..from Turkey (so long ago I've to dig to the back of my brain to remember). It should be with you any day now.

We got to the hotel at a reasonable time and I sat down to catch up with all the blog entries I know you've been eagerly awaiting, hope you've found them somewhat entertaining or informative :)

Once all that was sorted out I started working on the plan, or should I say Master Plan for when we get to Sydney. We've booked into a hostel for a week to rest up, get washing done and hang out with as many of the OzBUS crew as are sticking around. We're hoping to get tickets to see P!nk in Sydney on August 29th (if anyone can hook me up..please, please get in touch - I know I've seen this show twice already but I wanna go again!) From Sydney we've now got a flight to take us to Broome where we'll have 4 days and nights to hang out before we take a 10 day tour to Perth. We get a night there before taking the Indian Pacific train from Perth on to Adelaide where we've got a night to visit Ann, Cerri & Aisling. Then it's off driving the Great Ocean Road to Melbourne where I'll collect Conor from the airport and drop Una off to continue her adventure. This is all working out beautifully on my spreadsheet...now to get it to work out in reality :)

So that's what I've done in Bandung...not sure what there is to see here, like pretty much everyone else here I've not ventured out to look around. Una is busily making a birthday card for Barbara for tomorrow and some of the others are singing themselves silly in the Karaoke bar upstairs..the sweet tunage that's flowing down is amazing :)