As promised, I will show you our home in Indonesia. Yes, we did live about three years in Indonesia while working there. Our Home in Wonosobo, Indonesia. In Central Java at an altitude of approx. 760 m or 2493 feet and therefore pleasantly cooler than in the plains. During the wet monsoon, you could expect a daily down pour in the afternoon. That made listening to music even impossible... But, it was a very fertile area. Mornings were best, sunny and light with spectacular views of the great Dieng Plateau, of which I wrote in an earlier post, where we actually worked.
My husband Pieter, standing in front of the gate. Guess this looks like a typical home for the tropics. We stayed here for two months at the time, than flew back to Atlanta, Georgia/USA for one month off. Not that we were home, but away from Indonesia. We still did other work for Campbell's Soup in the USA, large mushroom plants in Germany, India and Italy during our month off...
That's the life of an international consultant.
That's the life of an international consultant.
To the right is the garage. Bedroom to the left and living room with entrance in the center.
There was another kind of parlor room that had its entrance to the left of the house.
Did you notice the very HIGH side walks? That is for being able to walk 'dry' when we had those tropical down pours. The street changed into a little river. At first I laughed about this strange high side walk. How come for people that are shorter, thus shorter legs...? But I learned the hard way!
I often walked on bare feet through the rain, holding my leather shoes in my hands, under the umbrella.
Did you notice the very HIGH side walks? That is for being able to walk 'dry' when we had those tropical down pours. The street changed into a little river. At first I laughed about this strange high side walk. How come for people that are shorter, thus shorter legs...? But I learned the hard way!
I often walked on bare feet through the rain, holding my leather shoes in my hands, under the umbrella.
Here you can see that entrance to the left. Also that gate gave access to the area where the servants remained. We did not have any servants of course. Just managed it all on our own.
A 2-bedroom house with two bathrooms. Tiled floors and bedrooms carpeted.
This is me, in front of the house. On a Sunday, our only day off...
While in Indonesia I've done a lot of lace crocheting as there was not as much of a social life besides the job. But those were very happy years. A kind of 'Back to Basics' life-style.
Hence the name of my business and blog.
View from our front door across the street...
View from the side, in front of the garage. You can see the tiled and covered patio that leads to the front door where the living room is. It was not an advantage to have the bedroom at the street side and also on the corner of another very busy main street. But you get used to the hustle and bustle of a never sleeping big city with lots of traffic noise. They honk their horns a lot. Each time when coming home to Georgia/USA, we felt ourselves very odd and out of place for waking up in a quiet and peaceful place where we live... A tremendous difference!
But, what a population difference. The island of Java is the size of the state of Georgia and has roughly about 13 x as many people living there! Called the most populous island in the world.
Traveling over there is more of a hazard as the traffic can be dangerous. Don't forget, due to the volcanic mountainous area, it is even more densely populated as most people do live in the plains and that's where the main roads are.
Neighboring house, across the street...
That was our home on Jalan Tirto Aji 1
in Wonosobo, Jawa Tengah (Central Java)
Indonesia
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A 2-bedroom house with two bathrooms. Tiled floors and bedrooms carpeted.
While in Indonesia I've done a lot of lace crocheting as there was not as much of a social life besides the job. But those were very happy years. A kind of 'Back to Basics' life-style.
Hence the name of my business and blog.
But, what a population difference. The island of Java is the size of the state of Georgia and has roughly about 13 x as many people living there! Called the most populous island in the world.
Traveling over there is more of a hazard as the traffic can be dangerous. Don't forget, due to the volcanic mountainous area, it is even more densely populated as most people do live in the plains and that's where the main roads are.
That was our home on Jalan Tirto Aji 1
in Wonosobo, Jawa Tengah (Central Java)
Indonesia
Sorry that most of you missed my post from yesterday: {USEFUL TEA REGIME FOR A SLIMMER YOU}
For some reason it never showed up in the sidebar... only on NetWorkedBlogs.
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{Dieng Plateau Indonesia - Where We Worked} | Previous post by me
{Our arrival in Jakarta, Indonesia} | Previous post by me
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