Hotel Puri Tanah Lot Kuta

... to leave Sydney at the start of the fantastic summer... but much as life is too short to stand in front of a conveyor belt keeping one's beady eyes peeled for rotten garlic... life is also way too short to be serving up pizzas day in day out to moaning and whinging Ozzies and Asians alike... no thank you siree!!!<br><br>So I am back on the road but I must make a quick mention of my 2 weeks holiday to Hong Kong and China with my family in ...

... when we come across a camp fire glowing in the beach. We ask the two ladies who are tending the fire if we can join them. I am a picture of typical backpacker and loving it, here with my new friends glowing with alcohol and laughter under the stars with a camp fire roaring away. The two ladies at the fire consist of a forty/fifty year old woman from the Netherlands and the other forty year old woman, lets call her Mad ol' Mary. Mad ol' Mary ...

... to remember; it really is that bad! haha. Soon enough he had cleared the podium of dancers and was still grooving away. Andy and I would have been extremely embarrassed, had it not been for how bloody hilarious it was! We were quite embarrassed to be seen with him. (Tom: Who cares about beng embarrassed in a club? I just enjoy myself - **** anything else! You wish you had the balls to dance on a podium!) [Rich: I have the balls, but I'm not an attention seeker like you. I don't feel ...

... NY starts the day before where they have a big party to shoo all the spirits away but the next day...you're not allowed to leave the house or you will be arrested!!!! How mad is that?? the whole of Bali comes to a stand still, no planes, trains or automobiles!!!! At night you're not even allowed to turn the light on, watch TV or anything!! Quite surreal although apparently if you have children you are excluded, which the hotel owners did and so we were invited to the most ...

... qu'un temple. Au souper nous sommes allee au resto et qui avons nous rencontre, notre petit couple. Maintenant elle nous accuse de la suivre partout hihi. Ce soir nous sommes allee voir un spectacle appele Cak Rina. Une representation ayant lieu a la pleine lune. Une cinquantaine de danseurs s'accompagnant de leur chant traditionnel. (Chack Chack Chack . . . . hummmm ...

My head feels like all kinds of wrong after the last couple of nights...but I'm going to try and give some account of the last few days... My first day in Bali (Sunday) was pretty quiet. Jules was away diving so I stayed at a hotel called the Sorgawi. Its a decent enough place but pretty quiet. I spent the day walking around the area, making my way down to Kuta Beach which I walked all the way across, taking in the mix of locals, backpackers, surfers and families on ...

... in (trinkets? me?). I think I heard as low as 500 rupiahs (1 AUD = 8500 rupiahs). Bear this figure in mind for the story Ill tell later. - Bir Bintang T shirts.. to go with the Beer Chang T-shirt you bought in Bali. - Interior design stores that are a variation of the Villa and Hut chain of stores in Australia. All dark wood furniture, lamps and other objects reeking of Eastern exoticism. Speaking of Eastern Exoticism, it is ironic how many ...

... Besakih) It's the largest and most holy temple in Bali. We got there just as the sun was setting, it supposed to be the best place on the island to see sunset. Unfortunately as our guide put it, the weather was unfriendly, and it was really foggy. We couldn't see the big volcano backdrop to the temple, fog, and we couldn't see the majestic beach below (fog) and we really didn't get a sunset ...

... I hope the people remain strong and continue to push their culture forward. <br> <br>*The seemingly endless touts throughout Asia get very tiresome, to say the least. No I do NOT want transport, a tuk-tuk, a taxi, a motorbike, to have dinner, a prostitute, opium, weed, marijuana, ganga, mushrooms, a room or a tour. NO! NO! <br> <br>*OK....I have to say it - the ****ing spitting in China still makes me want to gag.