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After three weeks I felt it was time to leave Indonesia behind me, looking back I guess I liked Samosir Island the most. So many people with their interesting stories. On one of my last days there my neighbour asked me to join him for a cup of coffee at a restaurant of a friend of his. Peter, 42, from Germany has been living on Samosir Island now for over two years. He married a Batak wife and made his "Panorama" restaurant to a well run place. After some time, his loving wife decided it was time for her to own her own Panorama restaurant. She went to the Indonesian "Imigrasie" and did what was in her powers to get her husband out of the country. He discovered her intentions very quickly and shut down the cash flow for some weeks. "When the car needs to be repaired and there's no money for it, the car will soon stand still." She found out that she couldn't run the place on her own and realized it takes the two of them to make it a success. Slowly their relationship is improving again and she gave him a beautiful son.
September 20th: The Big Mango
Vandenankerrr2005-11-25 14:12:49
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After three weeks I felt it was time to leave Indonesia behind me, looking back I guess I liked Samosir Island the most. So many people with their interesting stories. On one of my last days there my neighbour asked me to join him for a cup of coffee at a restaurant of a friend of his. Peter, 42, from Germany has been living on Samosir Island now for over two years. He married a Batak wife and made his "Panorama" restaurant to a well run place. After some time, his loving wife decided it was time for her to own her own Panorama restaurant. She went to the Indonesian "Imigrasie" and did what was in her powers to get her husband out of the country. He discovered her intentions very quickly and shut down the cash flow for some weeks. "When the car needs to be repaired and there's no money for it, the car will soon stand still." She found out that she couldn't run the place on her own and realized it takes the two of them to make it a success. Slowly their relationship is improving again and she gave him a beautiful son.
On the boat to Penang I met an guy from Wales; "Aha, you're English!","No, I'm from WALES!" His passport showed "Great Britain" and again he took the bait like a fish as I said: "So, you're English!" He didn't travel with a guidebook as it was more adventurous, he was an "unplanned" traveler. The guidebooks take away some fun and the worst problem to me is that they send all the tourists to the same places, the real country can be discovered behind the facades of the tourists shops, bars and restaurants. He had a funny sense of humor. He would buy something and then when other people ask how much it'd cost him he would put the price way down lower. The other person wants to buy the same and starts to argue with the salesman.
I headed straight to Thailand after Sumatra. In Krabi I hired a motorbike and do some sightseeing around the town. The shell cemetery wasn't that interesting,
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