Here we are on Borneo. It took me a while to figure out Borneo. A huge island, but not a country. Most of it is part of Indonesia, and then a strip along the north coast belongs to Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah provinces) and then Brunei which has the weirdest borderline I have ever come accross. And here we are, we flew here yesterday, Timo and Ceci have a 5 day break. Kuching is a cool little town on the banks of a large meandering river, now rather muddy because the rain season has just started. We are staying in a "backpacker travel lodge" with a great bar/breakfast room in a loft where you can sit on tall benches and eat breakfast gazing out at the skyline and river.
We spent today wandering around, visited some museums and so on. This is the island of headhunters, we were in the ethnographical museum and saw a replica of a tradtional longhouse, including a number of skulls hanging from the ceiling.
We had dinner last night at a great place overlooking the river, the atmo was definitely colonial.
School break doesn't mean respite from homework. Timo and Ceci both have work to do. Timo has to prepare a speech about the benegits of reading (!!). Here is a picture of him at work on his hotel bad, taken from my "meditation alcove".
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