The Postman

Okay, so I’m in Medan, Sumatra waiting for the ferry to take me to Malaysia. It comes tomorrow but in the meantime I’ve been staynig in a fairyy tourist friendly part of town. The hotel’s cheap, clean and near MCdonalds and the internet. Smashing. Yesterday then I go for a stroll to the mall for [...]

What a day. It started at 2am when the bumsmear next door kept coming and going on his moped. I don’t know what he was doing but judging by the nature of the hotel he wasn’t up to no good. Like the last one I think it was really a brothel, or service centre for [...]

Well sod me. Last night I arrived in Belawan, the port town at the north of Sumatra where I was suppossed to catch a ferry to Malaysia. All going good apart from losing another glove, another hat and being forced to pay a fortune for a room for a weird hotel where neighbours kept me [...]

Well pour me a shandy and send me up the maypole, in two days time I’ll be on a dingy to Malaysia….. But wait, I’m not done with Indonesia yet and if the last week’s anything to go by then anything can, and probably will still happen. In the last seven days me and Dot [...]

Dear all, Sad as it sounds I’m in McDonalds hiding from the hustlers of Java. Today I got to Yogykarta, one of the main cities on the island and thought this looks lovely, I’ll stay the night. And it is lovely, it’s just a shame so many people hustle and follow you about the place [...]