Yes, the clock tick and its that day of the year again, we’re celebrating Christmas in the Western World, one of the most important holiday! Here in Jakarta, its warm as ever…. even locals say its kind a cold to them as its wintertime!
Yesterday I was invited to visit my good friend “Pack” Wawan’s place(s)
Entry to his office is amazing, the office itself even more!
Meeting table from a 300 years old tree, its about three times as long as what you see, I think we had a very good meeting, the table from the tree was good for the Karma of our relationship!
A couple of hours later we were at his house on the borders of the city… Beside VW’s Wawan collects Toyota FJ, price winning beauties… another world…
In better then new condition!
Inside out that is!
Wawan is also a vivid off road driver, was national Champion in 2011…
Welcome to the garden, it must be cool to live in a tropical land, with all these plants and trees, sadly the Frangipani trees didn’t had flowers this time of the year…
A couple of license plates for my collection, wowh, they will get a very special place on my wall!
Just down the road,bamboo shop, what size or diameter do you want?
Ok Jakarta wins! Traffic is worse from the whole world, and there is no place have more scooters, unbelievable, sometimes they seem to fall out of the sky!
Christmas evening, and my family arrived here, just in time to enjoy Christmas evening dinner (actually we drove straight from the airport to this lovely restaurant) so yes, yours truly schedule keeps on going, but for me this was the best Christmas present somebody can imagine!
Today we transfer to Bandung, more south … to visit our friend Yanto and Mike… from Terror Garage fame! so stay tuned, for the Blog tomorrow!
Let’s start with the sad news first…. the Unions at VW do Brazil seemed not to be strong enough to keep up production, the government has won, the last Kombi rolled from the assembly lines on Dec 19 2013, it’s done, it’s over, the numbers known, forever…
VW do Brazil, a view on the last days of the assembly line…
And off course…. the very very last Kombi, ever made… Bye Bye Kombi or better in Portuguese….
So here we are, on the other side of the world, in Asia… What happened since our last travel update, that last wonderful lunch offered by our friend Lee in Taichung, Taiwan (very beautiful city btw!)
Monday morning pretty early @ Starbucks in Taipei international airport we ordered 2 caffe Latté…
An hour later we where on board of a Boeing 737 from Garuda airlines on our way to Jakarta Indonesia, for more VW adventures… Garuda is a very very good airline, believe me, wowh, what a flight….
My friend and big time VW collector and VW lover Wawan had some “shit” in his office (his own words!) So wasn’t able to pick us up but he send one of his employees Kenni, and Sudi the helper and a driver! Three persons only to pick us up, wowh, thanks! And welcome welcome to Indonesia, this must be paradise, right?
The dinner with Wawan was cool, off course we ate Indonesian cuisine, but only in Indonesia, as we ate Mexican food in Mexico and Japanese… everywhere…
1 metre of Satées…
Left to right…. the president of the VW club from Indonesia, our own “Alain”, yours truly, my big friend Wawan, and the president of the split window club from Indonesia, the last one came especially for this dinner by train out of Bandung, and that’s our next destination…
I hear you all ask, why is Bob celebrating Xmas in Indonesia, well let’s reveal a little secret, I’m invited to Indonesian largest VW festival, Yogja VW festival, do we look forward to the weekend? You bet….
As for now, DEC 24 on the evening before we celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ I wish all of you a very very Merry Christmas, may we all pray for peace, and think about people in the areas where the war rules still today, let us pray and wish the War lords and radical people from this world will understand anytime soon violence will NEVER EVER bring any solution.
A little love, peace and understanding from me to all of you, out of Jakarta, Indonesia on Christmas eve, next to the Xmas tree in our hotel.
Stay tuned for all of our Indonesian VW adventures!
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