July 23    Finally all the paper work is together with Melioni's Passport and application - I can now courier them to the French Embassy in Jakarta (in trepidation ).   I wonder what chance there is of losing this very important passport in transit?
Immediately -   we then look for a flight to Gunung Sitoli - going direct to the Airport – it is      1 pm -  we are told there is a flight at 2 pm.    The check-in is open, and the 3:45pm flight is full.  So run, run, run, frantically packing at the Hotel to get back to the Airport with luggage for the 2 pm flight.  We arrive at the airport at 1.40 pm to be told seats are now available on the 3:45 pm flight and the 2 pm flight is now full !!  We relax in the cafe, Margaret, Jan, and I, until the need to run to check –in - but alas we were too late to get Jan's suitcase on the flight!!   Bother!!!  None the less we fly to Gunung Sitoli while Margaret stays in Medan to fly home to New Zealand.   (Wow! - in Dr Derek’s rush he has forgotten Melioni – No)

July 24    While waiting for Jan's suitcase to arrive on the pm flight from Medan, Melioni, Jan and I visit St Alma Home.   We hold a small clinic with donated medicines from Mt Maunganui  Pharmacy  (thank you Daphne for medicines – much appreciated).  We drive to Teluk Dalam after uplifting suitcase from Airport at 6.30pm - at which time we developed another flat tyre.   Thank goodness we were helped by a very friendly Indonesian man who lived nearby.   He quickly changed the tyre in the busy street in Teluk Dalam which enabled us to drive to the Tyre Repair Shop - which had just closed.   This gave us no option but to drive to Sorake Beach without a spare tyre – returning in the morning.