Stewardess,lovely.

We seek the help of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful...Who has bestowed upon us the will and ability to use this aircraft, without Whom we are helpless.  Verily, God alone we worship and to God alone we shall return.

Ooh!It's a little propellor plane,our first ride on a little propellor plane!  This lovely little plane with extremely handsome staff, cost us a mere 21 and a half quids and took only 70 minutes to get us to Java 10 minutes after we left.

We boarded a coach and started a three hour journey which took us a bit closer to where we were headed, a mighty volcano called Gunung bromo,situated in Cemoro Lawang.  However, we still had some 26 kilometres to go.
Over my first cup of Java in a tiny cafe type affair, some local guys offered to take us the rest of the way, the offer starting at 100Rp and gradually rising to 300.  If they could fill the bus we'd get the cheaper deal, otherwise...anyway,  after some thirty odd minutes sat in the back of this small transit I asked how long the driver thought it would be before he got enough passengers to make him want to move and he said he really had no idea and why don't we go in the morning instead.
Taking full control of the situation for the first time in some 90 minutes we pulled all our luggage from the van and walked back along the road towards a hotel, chased by a couple of guys saying,"ok, sorry, two hundred, please!  "But actually i massively had the arse by then and it was too late.  Within minutes we arrived at a hostel run by friendly staff and got a room which they stuck an extra bed in so that we could all snore under one lovely great big air con.
The guy on reception reminded us that if you're a tourist a lot of people around here will try and double the price of most things on offer.
Today, refreshed albeit for another blast from those singing ringing towers at 4am, we will complete our journey to the smoking mountain.

A couple of days ago in Kuta, Bali, Liz had one of these weird foot spa things that are full of little fish who suck away and eat all the dead skin.  Stash and Osk also had the pleasure for a few minutes.

Who should we bump into yet again but Arjen and Maaetje from the Komodo boat hell trip!

Location:Probolingo