Tiny and titchy are safe and well, unloaded and rolling down the roads of Indonesia !!!!
We had a bit of a shock when we where asked for a total of $600 to clear the port, including having to bring in heavy lift equipment, in the end we paid up and we are now around 450 KM south of Medan.
Indonesia continues to test our Britishness, the road manners here are odd (that's proper polite) the Asian flow that we had become accustomed too has disappeared for a slightly more random version of wacky races...
This is another country that I hope to get out of in one piece, I have already shared a few choice words with a more than impolite bit of carve up served to me by a microvan at a fuel station....
More to come, almost for sure...
The roads here thus far are not quite as bad as Kaz however great they are not, prone to disappearing under stones and mud, and due to the nearly every vehicle leaking oil, the roads are slippery when dry and turn to treacherous when wet..
We have noticed that despite being only a couple of hours from the equator the temperature has dropped considerably and its raining more than normal, so we have to assume the rains are upon us...
Which in turn will make the journey a little more interesting.
I know for sure that at least two cars in Sumatra have wind screen wipers, the rest is anyones guess.
We are now full on into Ramadan with the fasting festival concluding on Saturday, we hope this does not hinder our planned ferry journey to Java, scheduled for Saturday.....
So then we are a quarter of the way down Sumatra, about a tenth of the way through Indonesia, and therefore around 3500 KM from OZ and our final destination......
We are slowly starting to wish the next couple of weeks away so we can finally stop and gather our senses.
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