PHOTOS Here we are in Indonesia, the greatest place we could imagine so far! People are the nicest, chocolate and coffee are delicious, so are fruits like goyava, lychees and avocado, and there are Volkswagens everywhere!
Filip had met Endra from Jakarta's VW association at Badcamberg meeting in Germany: this man was just like an angel for us, coming to pick us at the airport late at night to drive us through the huge 50 million inhab. city of Jakarta. We stayed just one day, in BSD, visiting the Pasar Modern and spent the evening at a perfect chill out place called the "Carburator Springs", which joins together a VW garage, a Steak house with very good meat, a street art gallery and kids playing the guitar and the djembe and singing Indonesian reggae.
Next day another VW friend Harry took us all the way to Bandung, 150 km south east of Jakarta. He showed us his friends who all have the most beautiful villas, and Filip went to Anto from Terror Garage, who has a marvelous surprise for us: after showing him his collection of rare VW, not only did he help us find the bus, but he also just offered to buy us a bus for our stay in Indonesia!
So the bus is a German one, year 68, color Bordeaux, that's why we called it Bordok. We stayed a few days here around Bandung until the bus could be ready: we were hosted by a very nice Muslim family with two boys aged 5 and 3, two very good friends for Elios. In the meanwhile, Bordok received seat belts, new wipers, etc. We customized it with many stickers from our sponsors. We borrowed a GPS and a baby seat, and Filip made his first driving tests in the terrible left side traffic full of scooters. Now we are ready and will leave in a few minutes to get tomorrow to our first Indonesian VW meeting, in Jogjakarta!!
Filip had met Endra from Jakarta's VW association at Badcamberg meeting in Germany: this man was just like an angel for us, coming to pick us at the airport late at night to drive us through the huge 50 million inhab. city of Jakarta. We stayed just one day, in BSD, visiting the Pasar Modern and spent the evening at a perfect chill out place called the "Carburator Springs", which joins together a VW garage, a Steak house with very good meat, a street art gallery and kids playing the guitar and the djembe and singing Indonesian reggae.
Next day another VW friend Harry took us all the way to Bandung, 150 km south east of Jakarta. He showed us his friends who all have the most beautiful villas, and Filip went to Anto from Terror Garage, who has a marvelous surprise for us: after showing him his collection of rare VW, not only did he help us find the bus, but he also just offered to buy us a bus for our stay in Indonesia!
So the bus is a German one, year 68, color Bordeaux, that's why we called it Bordok. We stayed a few days here around Bandung until the bus could be ready: we were hosted by a very nice Muslim family with two boys aged 5 and 3, two very good friends for Elios. In the meanwhile, Bordok received seat belts, new wipers, etc. We customized it with many stickers from our sponsors. We borrowed a GPS and a baby seat, and Filip made his first driving tests in the terrible left side traffic full of scooters. Now we are ready and will leave in a few minutes to get tomorrow to our first Indonesian VW meeting, in Jogjakarta!!
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