Blogs from Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 5

Saturday 14th February SHAVE DAY Now if you have done your homework, you will now know that one of the things that has to be done within 24 hours of the Otonan ceremony is the “Official Head Shaving”. It doesn’t really matter who does it, but Niang (may be spelled wrong, I have no idea) other grandmother was elected as she has great experience at doing this and as you can imagine, it’s not something you want to mess around with. ... read more

The party was huge, fun and hot and held at Tasha's "school". Children and adults had a great time, which after all is the whole point. Toby insisted that I have a beer - at 10a.m! After that I went onto "Te Botol", iced, sweet black tea in a bottle - really nice. Unlike our birthday parties, the gifts are not opened until it’s all over with everyone gone home and as not many had gift tags, no one has any idea who bought what. I suppose it gets around everyone trying to outdo each other! I hope you like the photos, bit worried about my grandchildren’s drinking habits though!!! By the way, my Australian phone is still playing up so for now I shall use one Toby has given me with an Indonesian number. It ... read more

Thursday 5th of February was a day to remember, for being wonderful and dreadful! Lex and Sam were in hospital getting ready to welcome my 3rd grandchild into the world, which was wonderfully exciting for me, although Sam was having a very long, hard labour. Naturally the most important thing to me was keeping in touch with Lex. So when my mobile phone was disconnected mid morning, I was beside myself. All my numbers were in that phone and I had them nowhere else. I felt totally cut off from the most important people in my life. Yes, over the top I know, but this was a very emotional time. I was leaving early the next morning and had no way of contacting people. My land line was about to be disconnected too! Well to cut ... read more

Der gestrige Tag hatte sicher im Laufe der bisherigen Reise die meisten Ereignisse. Nach einem guten "europaeischen" Cappuchino in einem kleinen suessen Cafe, das mir Monica empfohlen hat, wollte ich mich an diesem schoenen Morgen auf die Suche nach dem besten Wechselkurs begeben. Kaum 10 Meter gefahren, war ich wieder in einer Traube von Mopedfahrern, es wird hier grundsaetzlich gehupt und auf allen Seiten ueberholt und auch beidseitig gefahren, mal links, mal rechts, wo gerade Platz ist. Das ist ansich schon recht gewohnungsbeduerftig, ueberhaupt, in der Frueh, wenn man gedankenverloren am Moped sitzt und ploetzlich von ruecklinks angehupt wird.. aber nun ja, indonesische Verkehrsmanier. Bernie hat mir ein paar kleinere Schleichwege gezeigt, um den Massen zumindest teilweise zu entkommen. Auf einem dieser Schleichwege ist es dann passiert. Polizei. Zuerst dachte ich, der Typ auf diesem... read more

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