Smell the Springtime air and the characteristic air of Indonesia

Well, the days are quickly counting down!....
39 more days and the Springtime is coming.

The grass is getting green, the flowers and plants are getting bloom.
The smell of the warm springtime air coming through my bedroom window. That's one of the many things I’ve always adored springtime, the beautiful smell of the air when winter is finally over. When the temperatures are rising above freezing at night it gets warm enough by day, it is fine to walk or to bike alongside the fruit horticultures. You smell the blossoms of the apple or peer trees.

Over more than 7 weeks, after a short business trip to Asia I’m going on holiday to my beautiful motherland Indonesia. Warm and clammy, with the humidity grade almost 100%. Always be in a traffic jam, smell the pollution of exhaust gasses of millions motorbikes, cars old and new ones, public vehicles like busses or little ones called angkots and bemos.

I can smell the characteristic of the Indonesian air, smell the rotten garbage floating in the river be take turns by the sweet-smelling of dishes which prepared directly on several stalls (called kaki lima or tenda) alongside the streets. A combination of villas, small houses, huts and skyscrapers decorating Jakarta, This Jakarta, with more than 12 million people living. This is Jakarta on top, the metropolitan city of Indonesia.

I love Indonesia, back to my roots, visit my family, visit old and new friends.
I love the way of living, simple, almost outdoor house. Plenty restaurants, junks foods, bistro’s or ‘rumah makans’ cheap or expensive to visit or you can order and eat your meal under the dark sky in the little stalls which you can find on every corner of busy streets.

I love the people, their hospitality.
Not hasty or stressy like the daily living in the Western World.
I’m a borned Indonesian!…. I can’t wait, yummy, yummy….