Sari Beach Legian

... some Balinese cooking for you when I come home, even if it is Nasi Goreng and green pancakes with coconut filling. Rae, start thinking of what sort of birthday cake you would like.I am doing some serious spa treatments to finish the holiday, and some special restaurants. Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday. Lots of love xxxxx

Hi guys, finally made it to the internet cafe at the end of our lane. Our driveway is about a street long but very quiet tucked away from the kaos that is Bali. Once we get to the street there are motorbikes everywhere. You can have a licence when you are 12. Have seen up to 4 people on one bike. They carry everything on bikes. Bundles of laundry, babies, rice, big lengths of bamboo. The only ...

... about seeing Mum and Dad again they were stationed 200m further up the beach at Melasti Resort. It was also lovely to be able to spend time with PJ and Kristy. Twain and Dicko, PJ’s friends made up our group and we ate out together, relaxed by the pools and watched the boys muck around in the surf having tricks competitions on long boards.

I bought a Lonely Plant guide to Bali and was “head down bum up” reading it prior to travelling and using it as a ...

I woke up early to the sound of workers behind my room. I felt like they were next to me, inside my room. The sun peered in the windows and I was fully rested form the Ambien I took the night before. I thought it would be a perfect day to take another one considering how I wanted to adjust to this time zone. It was my first full day here and I decided to start on the right foot and go for my first run. I put on my running clothes and hooked up my ipod to the nike+ component ...

... were people and stores everywhere, and too many cars and motorcycles for the streets. A short trip of less than 10km to our hotel in Legian took almost an hour. We took a narrow alley (oh, I guess it was a street), and arrived at our hotel. It was fairly nice, with its own bathroom, a balcony, air conditioning and a pretty comfy bed. And the cost was less than $25 a night! We had planned to leave the next morning for other areas of Bali ...

... at the Tegal Sari for later in the afternoon. After brunch, I strolled up Monkey Forest Road, the main drag into town. It's about a 20-minute walk, all shop lined. Not far up along this road is the place for which it's named, the (Sacred?) Monkey Forest. It's a wooded preserve with several bands of long-tailed capuchin monkeys. You can purchase bananas to feed them, but I didn't. The guidebooks say they'll climb all over you if they think you have food, and I ...

am gate in singapore hemer d nikkel, d vero und bine troffe, womer no vo laax her kenned. es het viel z verzelle und z lose geh und so isches eus au glich xi, dass siche euse abflug um 2h verspoetet het ..und mir erst ide nacht am 3 z bali glandet sind. a kuta, em "ballermann" vo indonesie hemer eus zerst muesse gwoehne. s motto det isch party, shopping und sich so daemlich wi moeglich beneh. wi ime 24h duur-rusch groeled touris ume, zeiged ihri dicke, vode ...

... dinner at a great cheap eats place called Bamboo Cafe and concluded with certainty that we'd spend at least the next couple days acclimatizing in the comfortable environs of resort (and all its accroutements) ridden Kuta-Legian-Seminyak. We had combined duty-free bottle power. Thanks to Eugene and Sue: Sauza, Jim Beam... and some 1.5 leftover bottles on our part as well. The next couple days were spent sunning by day, drinking by our quadruplet set by night after dinners at all ...

... to prove it. Ester was big, and she was heavy and to be honest with you, it was one of the strangest feelings having a python wrapped around you, but I'm In Bali!!! So why not , you only live once.My mom is totally freaking out right now. After that I went down into the temple and there were ALOT of stairs, and it was ALOT hot. It was fine going down, and so pretty!!. There was a river down on the bottom and statues carved into the ...

... to see...bibles. Great. We had somehow stumbled on a Christian church, on a Hindu island, in an Islamic country. What were the odds of that? The caretaker (the man with the bench and the pretty little girl) actually spoke quite good English and we had a rather interesting, if sort of surreal, discussion about religion. I asked him what faith he was and he said, "Protestant", and then told us, from his viewpoint, why he had converted: Hinduism was religion that required a lot of ...