BOGOR in West Java is famous for its rain, a matter that has been preoccupying the benighted folk of Jakarta, has it not?

But just a few days before the onset of this years disastrous floods I was in Bogor and got lucky, so lucky in fact that there was from the town a picture-perfect view of Mount Salak. Not a cloud in view, a holystoned sky and a stiff wind blowing across the town, I thought this just too good to miss and took myself up Jalan Pal