Priorities......

So we arrive late afternoon in Kalibari, the most easterly town of Java, although I still can't see the sea! Just to prove that I can slum it, with Colin the cockroach, last nights accommodation was fairly basic and......brown!

Getting up at 3:30am was bad enough, but to use this room was the final straw. I would have taken a photo of the bedroom but it was too dark and brown!

Then this afternoon we arrive at a small plantation with individual huts in the garden, lovely big, bright, clean huts, with verandas and a garden. We were given the chance to climb overnight another volcano, but I had already spotted the pool and massage hut by this point. In fact 20 minutes after arriving I was in the pool and had a massage booked! Seen one volcano seen them all!!! After said massage, which was an experience in its self, I came back to my hut to find that Neil had tracked down a bottle of Java's finest red and a mini party was occurring on my verandah! It would have been rude not to join in! As for the massage I had laid down at 5pm on a Friday evening. Who knew that that is the call to prayer time? At precisely the time the lady started a cocaphany of mosques struck up their whaling in an effort to outdo their neighbours! At one point the noise was so deafening I could no longer distinguish how many mosques were in action, probably about 47!!! And they didn't finish until after my massage! Given that it cost the princely sum of £7.50 I felt dutibound to book another one for tomorrow.

So whilst some of the group will slog it up a volcano tonight and see nothing because it is dark, I will sleep, have a bit if a lie-in, a leisurely breakfast, maybe a few laps of the pool, a wander round the plantation and another massage. GET IN!!!!