Alam Gili Gili Trawangan

Well...<br> <br>Seems that the minor power outage in Ubud at the time we bought our Perama tickets caused them some issues - they forgot that we existed!<br> <br>The pickup was <br>supposed to be at 11 and sure enough at 5 past a Perama mini-van came past. But he was pretty full and the driver waved indicating that he'd drive round and come back. So we waited, and waited, and waited and at 11:30 (when the bus to Padang Bai was supposed to ...

... modern, clean looking cottages built in the back garden. It was called Rumah Kalua, and was just finished being built in August this year. It was down a side street across from the harbour down the side of Manta Dive school, so and is well worth seeking out. She showed me around and they had a living area, a nice bathroom, and a lovely bedroom. Kate would be delighted. I managed to negotiate a price of 200,000 rps (£13) per night including breakfast for us, agreed to ...

... importantly, it can&#8217;t be good for them to have this stuff piled up around them.<br><br>There was too much haze around the place to get a decent view of Bali from the top so I didn&#8217;t bother hanging around for the sunset. I found all the goats on the hill on the far more interesting to watch! Not sure what these poor buggers ate though as there really wasn&#8217;t much around. Their &#8216;keeper&#8217; climbed a tree and chopped down a ...

... for a taxi ride but not only managed to get a taxi with the money we had, but had an amazing driver who broke speed limits and went through a red light on the highway to get us there before check-in closed! <br><br>It was one of those movie moments - running in and trying to find which of the numerous Air Asia check-in desks was ours... got to the desk 10minutes after check-in closed but the after the supervisor had a grumble at us, the lovely bloke kindly checked us in ...

... br>turns out it wasn't nice &#8211; kinda dead/sleepy, had the feel of a<br>place that was kicking once upon a time but not anymore &#8211; and was<br>more expensive that Ned's for accommodation so we bedded down for a<br>night and decided to get the boat straight to the Gili Islands the<br>following morning. Next morning we loaded onto a small boat for the<br>hour long trip to the Gili's, passing some lovely looking deserted<br>beached on north Lombok. We got ...

... po kolei wszystko ogladajac, tutaj nie ma problemu z brakiem miejsc. Do Dharmarie doszlismy we trojke bo przylaczyl sie pan z agencji turystycznej ktory chcial nam pomoc. W sumie dobrze, ze szedl z nami bo byla okazja potargowania sie o cene wypozyczenia motoru. Doszlismy do 50tys. za automatic co bylo rozsadna kwota. <br>Senggigi to miasto punktow informacji turystycznej. Taka tutaj maja koncepcje na bialego :-) Pod punktami kryja sie po prostu agencje turystyczne. Z agencji ...

... out of the loose pocket that my pants have as we were sitting somewhere. I looked at the bar on the beach, everywhere but no luck. Usually good kharma shines on me and everything work out, but not this time. It is gone. I am afraid to see which card is missing so I am going to wait until I go home to find out. Oh well, I am still in paradise and my mind is capturing the images better than any camera can. So it isn't so bad.

... cos of the beard it seems. Well I'd shave it off only to do so would be detrimental to meeting further people since the top half of my face would be lobster pink and the lower half white as a ghost. The guys made their way home and I was joined by a welsh guy whose home apparently is a caravan in heathrow - he was pasted and his conversation was one of those "all about me" type sob stories - came over for a friends funeral, he bums around the ...

... the night. From there, we made our way to the Irish Bar. It was packed, the DJ was spinnin' good music &amp; even Santa made an appearance...dancing on the bar of course. A few hours, couple drinks spilled &amp; many laughs later, we called it a night. I awoke on Christmas sometime around afternoon. The vibe around the island was fairly mellow, which was a good thing. Another recovery breakfast at the Café &amp; recovery day on the breakfast was my Christmas ...

... Three lazy days in this secluded and relaxing beach hut we were ready for something a little closer to the action so we found a very nice, small family run bungalow in the village behind the main strip. This became our home for over two weeks. Our time there was filled with utimate relaxation and fine ...