Disini Luxury Spa Villas Seminyak

... is Balinese music. Full<br>from a great dinner, enjoying the sound of the waves hitting the<br>beach and looking at the twinkling lights from the other side of the<br>island- we hear it &#8211; and it's not good &#8211; a 3-man Balinese<br>ensemble doing a cover of U2's With or Without You. Now that's a<br>********g to sing for even good singers because Bono hits some high<br>notes &#8211; when it's not done well &#8211; painful. And that's when we<br>knew it was time to go pay!<br><br>

... well cool with a bar in the pool... needless to say we spent much of our time there where we met some Germans lads and went out on the town with them. Kuta is a party town with lots of ozzy surfers living it up. We went to a massive club where we drank some fish bowls (literally) and headed to the dance floor - where jess hopped around on one foot getting into the groove. At about 2am us 30 year olds headed home not being able to handle the pace and collapsed for the ...

... normally and pretend that everything is fine. The sideways glances at other passengers to check if they are reacting... The hurried checking of 'inflight data' for any kind of info... No help there although it was comforting to see that we were travelling at 'random speed' per hour and were at 'high enough to kill you before you even hit the ground' height. I decide my best option is to keep my head down and follow everyone else whilst making ready to run for freedom ...

... place woman is me! How embarrassing! When I get off the stage, I am subjected to taking pictures. The third place women was an expat. We become instant celebrities. I make my way back to the hotel and get ready for surfing lessons round 2. We surfed in low tide yesterday. Sunday, we are surfing in high tide. The Austrians called high tide wild waters. Regular surfing is more difficult because of the rougher waters. First, we ...

... she wasn't sure what was true so after arguing for a while, paid more money than necessary. I felt bad but she seems be ok with it...getting ripped off is just a part of traveling sometimes. So i'm off..with Australia waiting for me...back to the crazy 'west', the western world! Now it's not in the west, many western countries aren't, so why is it called the western world? Hmmmmmm...anybody? Well anyways i'm going down under, thats for sure...

... rest of the world doesn't like us. They didn't listen when our guide gave us info, wore their iPods on the ride and whinned about the local culture not being Christian, just annoying! Jason and I did as we do and made fun of them in private and shared several laughs with the girls. Gee Jason and I can be amusing at other's expense. Probably the best part of the day was as we rode through different villages ...

... of course, included in the price of our bungalow). We gratefully agreed and were presented with a delicious fruit platter and a fried-egg sandwich each. Unbelievable. After our gourmet breakfast, we started down the street towards the Monkey Sanctuary and tried to take in the culture in which we were enrobed. It was morning rush hour in Ubud and not uncommon to see 3 small children dressed in school uniforms clinging to the back of their ...

... to sit at another table. On came the dancing 'girls' in long white stiletto-heeled Kylie boots, glittery brief costumes with traditional Balinese headdress shimmying to Madonna. It was certainly an eclectic mix of styles! Slave boys danced with the Egyptian goddess, whose wings got stuck ending in a serious wardrobe malfunction! She made a fabulous recovery to huge applause and told us next week would be even better.

... we got back to the Payogan and shared the story of our trek, the staff was even amazed at how far we had hiked. Oh, and by the way, if you're thinking of doing the same thing, might I point out that the guidebook was probably written by someone visiting Bali during the dry season, because there really was no path through the rice paddies to speak of. Either that, or they had actually trekked through someone's rice paddies and I just wasn't about to tromp all over someone's livelihood.

... The styles were dynamic, the rhythm fantastic and the ability absolutely awesome !! Some guys and girls certainly had danced before, and the roof was raised as each couple finished strutting their stuff. THe boys running out eventual winners 3-2 !!! The following day we all relaxed, and some of us spent some time at the Vila before Tim and Jaime Headed off to Lombok for their honeymoon. On Monday, Marcus, Russell and i decidedto have a relaxing day...so ...