reports ... but before I assume I must confess that I did. Although one of my recent entries have told them that it would never happen, I ate my first fried Grasshuepfer last week! And he did not even taste that bad. Otherwise, there were not seen many culinary news, with one exception. I know that food is cheap in Indonesia, but you rice with coconut tofu sauce with a hot tea for only Rp 1.500 (10cent) gets so myself I do not expect. Even the Indonesians were amazed when they saw the bill. Nja in any case, I now have a new Lieblingswarung, tasted because it has also great!
But even this ingenious price / performance ratio just could not stop them to go at the invitation of my organization IIWC for 3 days from Surabaya to present at a trade show IIWC.
And so it was then that I saw me off at around 12:00 Tuesday lunch in an Indonesian economy bus. The trip started rather uneventfully, and up to about 30 degree temperatures in the absence of air conditioning, the fact that I had forgotten my water, and the constantly rising and falling dealers and musicians. But that's now been normal for me. What was not normal, however, the Indonesian president, which it invaded in just one of the cities that we could pass on our journey to visit - which meant a wait of 45 minutes before a police barrier. Well, I was just gracious about to overlook this incident because you can not plan something, of course, when the next blow came.
It happened during an overtaking. Our bus driver (typical Indonesian constantly on queue jumping and honking) wanted to overtake another bus behind a truck. As the bus in front of us, however einschehrte, we were suddenly confronted with an oncoming bus, so our bus drove back braking back to his old place. This Space was already occupied by a moped driver who rammed our bus now. Of course this is no reason for our bus driver to stop, but in contrast quickly continue on and push with the usual continue. But even in Indonesia, one can not with all of them, so our bus was stopped after 10 additional minutes by the police and began a new waiting 45 minutes until we were told that we have to switch through the bus, which is also about 20 minutes mean waiting time.
The traffic jam, waiting for us after that, in view of the already taken place almost not worth mentioning, so I can finally say that we arrived around 10.00 clock in the evening in Surabaya (normal travel time 7 hours).
From the city but even I did not see much, because I spent all day at the fair, but the short impression I got on the road from the station to the university (where the fair was held) was quite positive. And finally count the 8 new IIWC members that we have advertised in the 2 days.
At work: for at our booth and preparing the next day
