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April -- Sarah's Visit

In April a friend from Germany came to Singapore for a few weeks to do research for her master's thesis. Luckily for me, she also came to Batam to visit me, and we even made it to a beautiful Malaysian island called Tioman, where we went diving and waved hello to that other world down there.
Here are some photos from Sarah's stay in Batam. Unfortunately the photos from Malaysia were all on her camera.
Above: I'd wanted to take a photo of this sign for ages. Batam - the place I "call" home.
Below: The beach can get rather crowded.
Above: We managed to find a quieter spot.
Below: On the way home, we stopped at a dragon fruit farm where we enjoyed dragon fruit juice, dragon fruit soup, and dragon fruit chocolate cake. Mmmm.


  When you visit Batam there are 3 things you must do. 1) go to the beach. 2) go to Barelang suspension Bridge, conveniently located on the way to the beach (below). 3) Karaoke, as documented above. The random videos that often have no connection to the chosen song are hilarious!
Oh, I should add a number 4)...eat. a lot. The restaurant below, Cobain (pronounced "cho-bye-in" by the locals, and "kurt cobain" by me) is my favourite. The chicken is the best I've had in Batam, and the fruit juices are delicious too.
Alas, my friend departed and I felt a little bored and lonely for a short time. 
A very short time, as it turned out......

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