By the third day of travel to and from work, Kimberley was on her way to being a veteran traveler on the Metro. Which was a good thing since I was on my way to Batam that day. The travel over and back was completely uneventful. No ferry sinking, no vicious passport control officers, no scam artists making me pay to carry my own bags out of the airport. All the connections went well. The company has moved the IT offices into new facilities that do not include roach infested bathrooms, open sewage ditches, or other charms of third-world countries. I took videos between the ferry terminal and the office both ways and will post them on Facebook or Virtual Tourist to show you how traffic is completely chaotic.
When I got back I met up with Kimberley and we had supper next door at the Marriott hotel. They put out a buffet that is pretty impressive. Oysters on half shell, Asian mud lobsters, giant boiled shrimp (not prawns), sushi, antipasto, Indonesian green curry with lady fingers (okra, not cake), curried fried rice, stir-fried vegetables with egg tofu, roast chicken with prawn chips, drunken shrimp, roast beef with Yorkshire puddings fresh horseradish and brown gravy, Had that last one just to compare with the Lawry’s version. Like the traditional one better but was still impressed with how Lawry’s interpreted an institution.
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