I went into Baa
this afternoon and it was like Merry Hill on Christmas Eve – virtually impossible to find anywhere to park; I had never seen so many motorbikes in 
Baa. I spent a very enjoyable evening sat on my porch with neighbours. John had given me a Christmas cake which his parents had brought over when they visited and we shared some of this along with whiskey or Sprite. Chilpa was playing my guitar and we had a wide ranging discussion mostly in Bahasa Indonesian with occasional resort to the dictionary.
25 December 2009
After going to 
church I went down to Delha for my Christmas present from me – CHIPS. There is a rumah makan there that does the best chips I have had in Indonesia and I had been told they were open. When I arrived they were busy catering for a funeral and did not want to do chips but offered me rice. I declined and explained I had ridden down to treat myself as a Christmas present – I obviously did a very good sob story as I was told if I would wait then I could have chips. They were well worth the wait – e
nak. In the evening everyone who lives in the complex visited everyone else in the complex to wish then a Happy Christmas. I had phone calls from the family and lots of sms and email messages from home. There was also a party in a house just behind the complex which we had all been invited to which went on until about 03:00 with lots of dancing. All in all a very pleasant Christmas.
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