Blogs from Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 257

Well at last I’ve finally posted an update to the travelblog!!!! Sorry to everyone who was concerned that I was dead. Unfortunately, I wasn’t just being a typical male and suffering from various ailments!!! Anyway, Marion (French Girl) arrived in town yesterday and I have moved from Sanur to Seminyak. The hotel is absolutely amazing, with direct access onto the beach!!! Also, the restaurants are amazing both in the locality and in the resort. We booked into the KU DE TA restaurant tonight, and both the meal and the atmosphere were great!!! I haven’t really managed anything too exciting in Bali up until now, but I hope to see a lot more in the next 10 days. Hopefully I will include this in this travelblog for your viewing pleasure. Until then take care and speak soon. ... read more

On our sail into Padang Bai, Bali, Indonesia, we pass low, green hills. A volcano rises majestically behind them shrouded in clouds. The wind blows and parts the puffy, whiteness to reveal the volcano’s jagged cone. Alan and I are taking pictures from the balcony when I spot many odd looking boats in the sea. They are white with leg-like appendages sticking out from each side into the water. They look like white tarantulas crawling along the water’s surface. When our ship gets closer to them, we see that they are fishing canoes. This morning, we are taking Radisson’s “Bali As You Please” tour with Tyler, Vicki, Stephanie and Phil. We will have two vans, each with a driver and interpreter who will show us around the island according to an itinerary that we choose. Stepping ... read more

WOW! What an amazing 3.5 months!!! As we boarded the plane last week for our 48 hour journey home, Leslie and I both wondered where the time had gone. From all the wonderful people we met and all the incredible sights we saw, we had a blast! For our last 2 weeks in Bali, we put away our Lonely Planet and introduced ourselves to vacation-mode! Ahhh, vacation! You know it's pretty bad when you need a vacation from your travels. It was nice to not have to pack up and move everyday or cram onto a bus at 6am!!! Now, don't get us wrong, our vacation-mode is not much different than travel-mode since there is still drinking, still sleeping in, and still eating....just lots more of it!!! Our friends from London, Ben and Tom (aka Prawn ... read more

(Dave writes...) Well, we're in Singapore now. We arrived here yesterday from Denpasar in Bali. We spent a month split between Bali and neighbouring island Lombok, here's what we've been up to... We left our hostel in Perth on Thursday 29 January and arrived at the airport only to find that our flight no longer existed. Qantas had shifted us on to a different flight on the Friday morning, unfortunately no-one had told us! They also made us fly via Singapore and we lost our veggie inflight meals... anyway, back we went to our hostel after having said goodbye to the people we'd met there, feeling very daft, and stayed another night. People told us Perth was a hard city to leave, but I didn't realise how literally they were talking. We got away on the ... read more

Hello, We are leaving tonight for Bangkok. Lisa and Ben and their children, Daniel and Olivia, left last night and we will miss their company. We have Ay-lou looking after Jetson in the villa now, while we come to the internet cafe in Seminyak...... luxury. The Pearls and some of the gems are good and well priced here, so I am going to buy some to bring home and hopefully will come back to meet up with Lisa next year again if she would like to, to design and make some items for sale. I think I have some great ideas to run with. It has been great to be invited into her environment here and to see her skills at work. The people are very friendly, and although the tourism has dropped off, the inner ... read more