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Weekend in Surakarta (Solo)

  A little while ago I had the privilege to go to Solo (official name is now Surakarta), the hometown of our current president Joko Widodo. He was a very famous mayor there before he became Jakarta's governor and then president afterwards. So I was quite curious to see what the city was like. First things first, pictures from work!   After work was done, I moved to a brand new Best Western in Solo Baru. It was still nice, but not all floors were open yet. There was still fresh paint smell lingering around there. There was a major problem during my stay though, the bar downstairs had played music so loud, I could hear it in my room several levels up and even the windows were shaking from the noise. I had to call the receptionist downstairs several time before they got it under control, or maybe they didn't but I just got too tired to bother. Not sure which.  The place where I worked gave each of our team members a souvenir... so n