Back on the road

Well im back on the road, being home was nice took awhile to get used to the cold and was finally acclimatised when I left, Aussie was warm and now im in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia and its hot.

Stayed with Lindsay and Kristie in Landsborough which is in the Sunshine coast hinterland North of Brisbane. Spent most of my time loading up my new MP3 player and playing mafia wars an addictive facebook addon. Did a trip down to brissy to do some last minute shopping and got looked after by Lindsay and Kris, cheers guys.

Stopped off at James place in Southport on the gold coast for a night talked travel and drank booze then he dropped me at the airport in Coolangatta, cheers James. Did the usual and mixed up the flight times in my head so arrived and hour and ten mins before my flight left, worked out ok was just clearing customs as they started boarding so no lame waiting in the departure lounge, fucking customs took my sunblock as im all carry on and it was 125ml the liquid limit for carry on is 100ml. Flight was painfull, had no water on me due to the liquid laws and since I was flying airasia they charged for everything, (note to self prebook meals on that flight) they even have an in flight entertainment system that you have to pay for, talk about a cock tease. Least I had my new 32 gig creative zen for company.

The flight arrived in KL 30 mins late and as I only had a 1:50 window thought I was screwed, but cleared customs and passport control quick and made the Medan check in by mins. Sweet. Even managed to protect the few remaining blank passport pages I have left. (Aussie and Malaysia are stamps so can fit on used pages). The the flight was 15 mins late anyways. Was short and painless, Medan airport is tiny brought my $25 US visa on arrival with no drama and the caught a Motorbike sidecar into town. First hotel was full so was wandered to checkout the next when a Roster attacked me got me a good shot on the back of my thigh ripping my pants (again). Was pretty funny and only hurt my pants and pride.

Medan reminds me alot of Indian cities mismatched side walks, beggars, dirt and rubbish then the flash shops and neon lights. 28 degrees at 6pm.... gonna take some getting used to.