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Day 159 – The Two Towers

ignore the hair, we are at work here ...

ignore the hair, we are at work here …

Our first “free” day; and we spent it catching up on blogging. Through the bike maintenance and the museum visit, we were now 6 days behind. This needed to be rectified. Writing my entry went okay, Flo needs more time for his. Lunch time came and went. Luckily, I had left-overs to share so no one needed to go hangry (also Sonja’s kitchen always has food).

While Flo was working on his workshop blog post, Sonja started fixing our hiking pants. Our North face hiking pants are a vital piece of equipment and while they are still good after 5 years of use (except for the hole I created when I fell in Dili), the seams were about to give up. I could have sewn it by hand in a couple of days and probably with finger pain but Sonja owns a sewing machine and offered to reinforce the seams. Continue reading →

Day 156 – The last plane?

5:30 am is very early. But even Klaus and Silvia made it to give us a very warm farewell. Another if….if things go well, we will meet them again in July…in Germany, shortly before hitting Frankfurt. The next thing, we got carried away into the pre-dawn gloom the same way we came, on the back of an old pickup truck.

Checking what to do next ...

Checking what to do next …

To wake up after checking in, we waddled over to the nearest coffee shop at the terminal, just to have our most expensive meal of the entire stay in Thailand. A danish, a croissant, a coffee and a tea for the price of 7 Pad Thai …

The flight was pleasantly uneventful, except for yet another small child within arm’s reach. This one was better behaved but unfortunately kept on absent-mindedly kicking Nina for half of the flight.

I am still pleasantly surprised how smooth everything works in Kuala Lumpur. After picking up a new SIM card, we were good to go on the fancy airport shuttle train. We arrived back at Sonja’s place just to be invited to join for lunch right away. The food at the Ministry of Coffee was great. The place reminded me a lot of good New Zealand Cafes.

The rest of the day was very low key. I finally got to do the Indonesian summary post and we made a long list of To do’s while having such a great hub to work from. Speaking of which, we also got invited to home cooked dinner that night.