Breakfast  from the 5th storey roof garden looking over the bay back toward Bunaken.  Things grow so well While waiting for a Grab Taksi school returning from lunch gather in front of us with – “halo,  what is your name  or my name is…. “Blank looks if you say anything else. One bright voice called”…

Fantastic lunch. Baked fish, fresh chilli sambal sauce, with a  broth  for the rice and greens/kangkung. It was just simply good cooking. I tried some Indonesian and left a swell of laughter behind us We set off to find a museum. Watch your feet holes in pavement.  Not just broken and missing but whle Big…

The boat to Manado. Departs at 9. ..or sometime… 9.30 ..oh yes,  soon. It is very warm and sticky; where to sit? We  started in the sun on the bow, when we  got impossibly drenched in sweat we retreated inside  to shade  and the accompanying engine noise. Including us there is  eleven backpackers, twice as many…