Hi Fina and Tim, thank you for sharing. Enjoyed seeing all the shops. Its unusual that there wasn't many customers. Food looked lovely. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
Hello Dave and Dawn, In some ways, there is little difference between Britain and Indonesia. In other ways, they are worlds apart. I have been going there, off and on, for almost 40 years stand still I don't understand a lot of what is going on.
A new exciting video. I wonder if there is good public transport in this city? Here in the Netherlands, the weather has also been nice for a few weeks. Enjoy your holiday
Hi Torsten, A good question about public transport provision. In Bandung there is an enormous number of minibuses, all of them powered by petrol. As a result, you can go practically anywhere but you have to be up close to everyone else. They also stop anywhere, not just at designated bus stops. However, Fina and I went on the first high-speed train in Indonesia, which runs from Bandung to Jakarta and reaches a speed of 347 km/h. And, Jakarta itself now has a very extensive Metro system. And all of these innovations I've been constructed in double quick time.
Imagine a Marks & Spencer manager, man-managing by a non-imaginary menagerie! On a serious note, I agree it seems odd how a store can succeed with so little footfall.... (There is online shopping, of course, but I tend to associate it with enormous, Amazon-like warehouses.) Also, sad to hear about children trying to earn a living by stopping cars and attempting to clean them: not good for such vulnerable ones to be reduced to the role of "squeegee merchants".
A very creative first line! On the subject of the poor people in the street, it is hard to ignore them. All you can realistically do is, I think, to help a few of them.
@@theadventuresoffinaandtim Thanks for your kind compliment! (I do a bit of writing in my spare time.) I think you have it right: you can't help them all, but you can help some. I suppose I have the rather wonderful story of the "Starfish" in the back of my mind: you've probably heard it, Tim, but just in case you haven't, I'll relate it here... An old man was walking on a beach when he spotted a young man throwing starfish back into the ocean. 'What are you doing, young man?' he queried. 'Throwing starfish back into the ocean, of course,' the young man replied. 'You saw me - so why do you ask?' 'Because the sun's coming up rapidly and the tide's going out at the same time. This beach goes on for miles,' said the old man, stretching out his arms, '... and there are thousands and thousands of starfish: you can' t possibly make a difference!' The young man shrugged; then, he reached down to pick up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. Turning to the old man, he said: 'I made a difference for that one.' It gets me every time...😭
Hi Fina and Tim, thank you for sharing. Enjoyed seeing all the shops. Its unusual that there wasn't many customers. Food looked lovely. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
Hello Dave and Dawn,
In some ways, there is little difference between Britain and Indonesia. In other ways, they are worlds apart. I have been going there, off and on, for almost 40 years stand still I don't understand a lot of what is going on.
A new exciting video. I wonder if there is good public transport in this city? Here in the Netherlands, the weather has also been nice for a few weeks. Enjoy your holiday
Hi Torsten,
A good question about public transport provision. In Bandung there is an enormous number of minibuses, all of them powered by petrol. As a result, you can go practically anywhere but you have to be up close to everyone else. They also stop anywhere, not just at designated bus stops. However, Fina and I went on the first high-speed train in Indonesia, which runs from Bandung to Jakarta and reaches a speed of 347 km/h. And, Jakarta itself now has a very extensive Metro system. And all of these innovations I've been constructed in double quick time.
@@theadventuresoffinaandtim 215.616mph: that's fast!!!
Imagine a Marks & Spencer manager, man-managing by a non-imaginary menagerie!
On a serious note, I agree it seems odd how a store can succeed with so little footfall.... (There is online shopping, of course, but I tend to associate it with enormous, Amazon-like warehouses.)
Also, sad to hear about children trying to earn a living by stopping cars and attempting to clean them: not good for such vulnerable ones to be reduced to the role of "squeegee merchants".
A very creative first line! On the subject of the poor people in the street, it is hard to ignore them. All you can realistically do is, I think, to help a few of them.
@@theadventuresoffinaandtim Thanks for your kind compliment! (I do a bit of writing in my spare time.)
I think you have it right: you can't help them all, but you can help some.
I suppose I have the rather wonderful story of the "Starfish" in the back of my mind: you've probably heard it, Tim, but just in case you haven't, I'll relate it here...
An old man was walking on a beach when he spotted a young man throwing starfish back into the ocean. 'What are you doing, young man?' he queried.
'Throwing starfish back into the ocean, of course,' the young man replied. 'You saw me - so why do you ask?'
'Because the sun's coming up rapidly and the tide's going out at the same time. This beach goes on for miles,' said the old man, stretching out his arms, '... and there are thousands and thousands of starfish: you can' t possibly make a difference!'
The young man shrugged; then, he reached down to pick up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. Turning to the old man, he said:
'I made a difference for that one.'
It gets me every time...😭