Jakarta

Four nights is really the perfect amount of time to spend away from your family. So short there is no time to really start missing them, but long enough to enjoy a couple of nights - and mornings! - by yourself.
Of Jakarta I saw little less than the hotel, the meeting rooms, the traffic jam and a couple of shopping malls. But... what shopping malls! Super modern sparkling ones where I got books and games for the kids and super cool older ones where they had entire floors dedicated to batik textile or arts and crafts. Totally my kind of heaven. There was even a "Cafe batik" inside, where I took a break when it sort of started to get a little too much.

The people were wonderful and so smiling it was impossible not to smile back all the time. Tomorrow we are off to autumn break in Luang Prabang. Almost certainly very, very different from Jakarta.