Balisani Padma Hotel Legian

... on kauttaaltaan turistoitunut Australialaisen bailukansan kohtaamispaikka jossa lansimaista ruokaa tarjoilevat ravintolat esittaytyvat vierivieressa piraattivaatekojujen kanssa. Kuta- ja Legian Beachin yhteensulauttama ravintola ja kraasakojumeri jatkuu kilometrien sateella Denpasarista pohjoiseen. Benjihypyista banaaniveneeseen kaikki on saatavilla eika riemulla ole rajoja kun sataheppanen peramoottori ampaisee tayteen ...

... But never mind – the tour guide was happy to give his employer the flick and give me a personal tour on motorbike for $25 – including motorbike hire, petrol, Kecak dance and entrance fees. It was still overpriced but I agreed.

OK – this is where the apology to Mum comes in!!! I promised her that I would be careful – AND to have fun. This little experience didn’t really qualify for either. For starters, little ...

As soon as I was driven from the airport to Kuta – I knew that all would be well! I love this crazy island – and I felt instantly at home. The incredibly crazy driving along the extremely narrow and winding road from the airport (and elsewhere) certainly hasn't improved!

It’s funny that without even thinking about it, I just slipped into speaking Indonesian rather than English. I was ...

... mountains. Would be quite a good meditation place. Then we drove all the way to Legian, at the south of the island (it is great, the island is so small!), where it is basically a resort place to relax. We are probably going to take it easy before the big road trip to Oz!! In the evening we watched some Balinese dancing.



03.04.09: Today we went to the very bottom of the island, on Nusa Dua beach. This is very ...

I had my first day of teaching! The kids arrived to our house at 8am for their lesson, but we had no clue that they were arriving so early. We were expecting them to arrive at 10am, so I was actually out running when they arrived and the other two girls were still sleeping. I couldn't believe that I was late to my first day of teaching! But, everything here is so relaxed and chill that it was not a big deal at all. I mean, they don't even tell us what we are ...

... oh, four and five thousand of them and they keep coming. Then, of course, there are all the lizards on the walls and ceilings. And the rooster that likes to make his presence known outside my door every morning. And there's some unknown animal that periodically makes a cackling noise outside the window. That noise might be coming from the squirrel-sized creature I saw scurry up a tree this afternoon, even though there are no squirrels here and no ...

... het hemer relativ guenstig ime schmucke guesthouse mit pool choenne uebernachte. wenns eus bi eusne streifzueg dur ubud z heiss worde isch simer eifach schwupps mal gschnell is chuehle nass gumped. naebst musee wo sich balinesische oder aber au uslaendische kuenstlermaler widmet (zb walter spiess) isch ubud au bekannt fuer di verschiedne tanzuffuehrige. de bsitzer vom hostel het eus de kecak firedance empfohle und so ...

... out of the airport and took a deep breath of the LA smog and behold, Jonathan Euller was pinching my butt cheek. Good to be home. The stories for my grandchildren have been set. Now it's time to start embellishing them. "I remember when I was attacked by a water buffalo in the battle field trenches of Lakeys Peak. A beast bit a huge chunk out of my foot and nearly gored my heart if I hadn't rammed my surfboard into its right eye..."

... to find a room at midnight in Bali. Then, a coin got stuck in the sole pay phone around and we finally lamented and gave into the last taxi driver standing. He overcharged us by a lot, but took us to Kuta, a surfing village in the south of Bali and made sure we had a place to stay before he left. The Senen Beach Inn gave us a bungalow (that's a rather large room with a double bed and a bathroom) for 35,000 Rupiah (that's about $3.75 Canadian)! We crashed ...

... that there was simply no way to convey how deep they really were. Gunung Kawi was, simply put, stunning. Set in a small valley with steep, carved cliff faces, it is thought to date from the 11th century CE. The main spring pool was lovely with a 100 ft vine- and fern-covered rockwall as its backdrop. The individual shrines had some of the most intricately carved doors and statues that we had seen to date. Allow me a small digression here...there is a certain ...