Blogs from Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia, Asia

Today we have planned to spend the day with our very good friend Yvonne and her daughter Brigitte who are coincidentally here in Bali from Melbourne at the same time as us. They’re staying over in Seminyak. We spend the morning lazing by the Sofitel pool. A Chinese couple who look like they are both about thirty take up residence on the sun lounges next to us. The man is carrying a very large blow up floatation device in the shape of a unicorn. It‘s mostly white, but with a gold horn, and brightly multicoloured mane and seat. We look for the child that will be using this device, but it soon becomes evident that the couple are here by themselves. They both get into the pool, and the man then climbs onto the unicorn. I ... read more

Jour 1 en Indonésie fût plutôt bref : j'étais brûlée à mon arrivée. C'est environ 5 heures de vol entre Taipei et Bali. C'était plutôt festif : plein de japonais en route pour les vacances. On aurait dit un vol Montréal-Cuba ! Une fois arrivée à l'aéroport, c'était autre chose : teeeeellllllleeeemmmmeeeennntt de monde ! Je n'ai pas attendu longtemps pour acheter mon visa mais j'ai attendu un peu plus de 2h00 pour passer aux douanes. Après, ça s'est bien déroulé. Ah oui ... à part que ma Desjardins semble ne pas fonctionner dans aucun guichet ! Je dois m'occuper de ça aujourd'hui. J'ai donc changé l'argent que j'avais sur moi, faites changer la carte SIM de mon vieux cell (Merci Catherine Blais pour l'info!) et j'ai pris un taxi jusqu'à mon hôtel. Mon hôtel ! ... read more

After 2 months of travelling we had become a little tired, especially mentally; what's next, where to go now, how etc... The planning was always being pushed forward due to time lack but at a certain point you have to get going, again. Sometimes you wished it had all been planned ahead, but it wasn't !!! So, only thing to do was to find some hidden energy and move on. We still wanted to see some parts in the South of Bali, so we rented ourselves the ground floor of a private house (with pool) in Jimbaran. Here we were welcomed by Maddie ( Indonesian) and Paul (French) and their dogs! Here we could laze the days away by the pool; we had a kitchen to use, seperate bedrooms, equipped living room (televison etc, wifi). The ... read more

Today we decided just to relax and go shopping before heading off to Jimbaran Bay for our sunset dinner. It is, of course, our 35th wedding anniversary today, the reason for our trip. We had breakfast at the hotel and then went for a swim in the pool to occupy a few hours. After this we went to Carrefour for a bit of a look around the store. There are a lot of small shops in the complex so we looked at them before heading into the hypermarket itself. As usual we forgot to eat lunch so by the time late afternoon came around we were starving and ready to head down to Jimbaran. The afternoon was just sensational and the bay is beautiful, with the exception of all the rubbish on the beach, mainly plastic. ... read more