Total change of plan due to adverse weather conditions! Are we mad, or what?
February 2nd 2017 Well how to start? We woke up this morning to torrential rain, and the long term, or at least the next week's, forecast is for the same in all the places we planned to go. So outdoor activities we including actually leaving the hotel AT ALL became ridiculous or impossible. Howling winds too, so the speedboat to the Gilis would be very bad for the constitution if it wasn't cancelled. We would both
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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more 
