Among members, there are a few who are knowledgeable with Indonesia as a destination to spend time relaxing, mixing with the local culture, enjoying the tasty food as well as a possible place to spend valuable retirement time. I was in Surabaya last week for about one week, and I have this to share with you.<\/p>\n
I find the city of Surabaya rather homely. If one can speak bahasa Indonesia, or bahasa Melayu, this will definitely help communicate with the local community. I guess for many of us, many of us would have learnt this language in school. <\/span><\/p>\n Due to my short period there, I could only see the city. I didn’t get a chance to see the sunrise at Mount Bromo or even Mount Penanjakan. Being a tourist, I could only see the Russian submarine monument, the Sampoerna cigarette factory, Chinatown and reluntantly Tunjungan Plaza, the largest shopping mall in Surabaya. It is good shopping paradize. I remembered there was a Pasar Atum, with loads of local goods.<\/span><\/p>\n For men or women who admire the beautiful Surabaya ladies, this is a great city to envy. They just have great charms, smiles and looks. The traditional costumes are very attractive. I believe it’s the Javanese history and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n Part of the reason why I was there in Surabaya was to visit an Indonesia plant. But, I also took advantage of the time to visit the city. The mayor of Surabaya provided a fabulous dinner, coupled with live entertainment singing and dance. I was impressed with Indonesian hospitality.<\/span><\/p>\n There are direct flights from Singapore to Surabaya, only less than two hours away. I wish some of you especially those with Indonesia connections, or having lived and worked in Indonesia give us more insights into what it is like to consider one of the Indonesian cities as a place to retire or even for a short 3 – 6 months.<\/span><\/p>\n What is it like to retire in Surabaya or in any other city in Indonesia?<\/span><\/p>\n Terence Seah<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among members, there are a few who are knowledgeable with Indonesia as a destination to spend time relaxing, mixing with the local culture, enjoying the tasty food as well as a possible place to spend valuable retirement time. I was in Surabaya last week for about one week, and I have this to share with you. I … Continue reading “Surabaya as a retirement destination”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}