New Arena Hotel Kuta

I woke up early and hit the morning market with Dawa - what a fabulous experience!! I said my good byes to Cali and Jean & Dawa and got on the public bus to Kuta. I dint really want to go back to Kuta - but I thought it was a great place to meet up with others and easy transport from there too! When I got in everything had changed in the short time I was away....it was like tourist season had hit - big time!! I went to 4 places trying to find a room - there were rooms, just not ones that ...

We arrived in Bali on the 7th October and were picked up by our hotel transfer in their 'limousine' service (an old taxi cab) and taken back to the hotel, which was a lovely traditional Balinese style place, with a secluded little pool, which we couldn't wait to get in the next day. Unfortunately, that day never came, as I got quite a bad case of food poisoning and was bed ridden for the next couple of days. Doctor Neil was on hand again and managed to sort out a DVD player and 14 DVD's for a...

Whats up!

Got to Bali on wednesday 10th June after a 7 hour wait at Bangkok airport......no sleep for almost a day and feeling very rough.....starbucks frap and moch kept me going.

Day 1

Arrived in a place called Kuta Beach.......got ripped off as soon as I got out of the airport on a taxi ride. THe driver took me down some dodgy road and wouldn't go any further...and was like 3 km to where I had to be.....not a good start!

Arrived at my destination via another tax...

Well, we're not off to a great start. Got a bit held up at the airport for various reasons (make sure you have an ongoing ticket if you're trying to fly to Indonesia) but before we knew it we were in the air. Had forgotten exactly how good the blast is when you finally get off the plane in South East Asia, the wave of humidity that envelops you... it's awesome (until you start dripping with perspiration after 3 minutes and it sucks). Chaos at the airport, trying to find a taxi was easy with a...

So we got back to Kuta in Bali after another ridiculous 12 hour boat - bus - boat - bus trip from the Gili Islands. It was about 9:30pm when we got there and the first ever Asian Beach Games which was being hosted in Bali had just started a couple of days before. So we checked into the first hotel we found that we could afford and jumped into the pool at about 10pm and got chatting to two Swedish girls, one of whom was a huge Johnny Logan fan, so we took the **** out of her for that! The hote...

These are the travel logs of two young people with not much better to do. Chasing a little adventure we have given away our possessions, quit our jobs, and packed our bags. Not sure where the road will take us we travel in the general direction of the UK, hoping to see as much as we can on the way. After a great sendoff from friends and family, myself, Johnny, and my trusty sidekick, Danielle, are finally on our way.
As this is our first big effort traveling we thought we would ease our w...

I realize that I had not written about any of the people I have met, and since it's a rainy day in Bali and Internet only costs 90 cents an hour, I thought it would be a reasonable way to spend a few minutes this morning. The first group are a bunch of Rastafarians from Papua. They congregate every evening on a porch down the alley from where I stay and play guitars and sing. The one with the hat-- everyone calls him "Bob" because of his uncanny resemblance to Bob Marley-- and I have hit it o...

Stayed in Jimbaran Bay and Kuta in Bali for a total of 24 days. Bali ids a lot more modern than I expected.