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We took the bus into the inner city today to get some more things off our to do list. Since we didn’t manage to get ready earlier (and I am reading a book that I can hardy put down), we were basically in town for lunch. Despite taking a sandwich, Flo convinced me that this will be our last chance to eat out in Darwin. So we ended up in this lovely cafe “Four Birds” and I couldn’t help myself but buy one of their amazing looking muffins. The lady at the counter told me it was chocolate with peanuts, peanut butter and “all the other good things” so yeah. Very, very filling, more like a small cake in itself than a muffin really. Afterwards, a French lady for the kitchen came out to talk to me because it was the first time she had baked these and she wanted to hear a customer’s opinion on them. 🙂

wohoo … thousands. Wait, IDR

Enough food talk. Flo then went to change our Australian money into Indonesian rupiahs and man, we got so many of them. As a rough guide, 10.000 rupiahs is one dollar. All money changers are vultures though, so we lost 17ct to the dollar compared with the current market rate. Imagine you would change $100 into a foreign currency and back again, you are left with roughly $70! So where ever possible we will try to get money from ATMs withdrawn straight from our credit card.

We then also proceeded to the Indonesian embassy and collected our passports with the Indonesian visa in it. Most tourists don’t need to apply for a visa before entering Indonesia but we are special. Mainly because we wanted a 60 days visa instead of the 30 days one and also because we are entering through the land border from East Timor. This means we are now set for the next two countries and the next two months. 🙂

Back in Coconut Grove, Flo decided to make nachos as a goodbye dinner: Tig caught a plane to Melbourne late at night so we had to say goodbye to him already. :S