Our flights to Bali didn’t go quite as planned. Firstly, we got a message from the travel agents that our 10pm onward flight from Surabaya to Bali was cancelled and put back for 24 hours until the next night. This we can deal with but then the cheeky blighters tried to tell me that I had to pay 600,000rph for the privilege. Ha, they thought I was just a dumb tourist but I soon put them right!
Anyway when we got to the airport to get the flight to Surabaya they then told us that that flight was cancelled as well and that we would need to fly via Balikpapan and wait there until 8.25pm to get another onward flight to Surabaya. I was pretty annoyed with them by now so I did something naughty and told a lie (gasp) and said that we had an onward flight that night (well we did when we first booked it!) so after a bit of exaggeration on my part and a lot of huffing and puffing on their part, they eventually booked us on to another airline at their cost and got us on an earlier flight to Surabaya. I must try that more often!
We are staying in Chinatown tonight but there’s not much choice of hotel as everything seems very seedy here unless you pay top wack. We have also noticed that all the cab drivers here are lying thieves. Davids answer to them is to make slashing motions across his forehead which is what the locals do here. We are not sure exactly what it means but we think it’s sort of a jokey way of saying you’re a little bit crazy.
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