We spent the last 10 days of December 2009 in Solo (official name Surakarta) in Central Java. We made the journey from Jakarta to Solo by train. Solo is about 550 km from Jakarta and the trip takes 8 hours. This is about the same as the distance from Bristol or London to Edinburgh. Unfortunately the windows of the train on the outward trip were filthy and the photographs were poor. I managed to clean the windows a bit when we got on the train in Solo for the return journey.