The Losari Kuta

... cancellation fee, which we were more than happy to pay, and checked into the New Arena Hotel. This was one the nicest hotels we'd ever stayed in and was incredibly cheap. Plus it had a brilliant pool, which we spent nearly the next week in! <br><br>We spent the next few days exploring Kuta, including the gorgeous beach, where lots of surfers practice there skills on the huge waves. The general area of Kuta is much like South East Asia, in that there is a relentless ...

... for a few araks. An interesting local drink. Not recommended. <br> One effective way to freshen your self up in the morning I have discovered is to throw yourself into the biggest swell you&#8217;ve ever seen and attempt to surf it. I say attempt as a more accurate description might be to say the waves surfed me rather than I surfed them. Always room for improvement I like to think! After slight success with the waves in Peru I was looking forward to a little bit of a challenge ...

... i don't want to arrive at the airport to a crowd of you waving banners. It would be weird.<br><br>What have we done? To be brutally honest, we have done next to nothing. Spent most of the days down at the beach tanning and jumping around in the sea. Of and evening we have tended to get some food then go back down the beach with an ice cream. Its a tough life! One of the ...

... and talk to me as part of their English assignment. They had a set of questions to ask me and sometimes the conversation developed further; like when they asked me to tell them what happened to Kurt Cobain after I pointed out his Nirvana T-shirt. After 10 or 15minutes they each had their photo taken with me and then got me to sign their english assignment sheet for them.<br><br>Just before we were about to leave a group of girls approached Andy and asked to have their photo taken ...

... a proper honeymoon. Only to be used when fed up of skanky beds, disgusting bathrooms and feeling in need of some TLC. The time was now ha ha. Off we went to the smallest island of Gilli Air. Oooh so beautiful. Beautiful clear waters in which you could see the fish, no vehicles allowed only horse and cart with jingle bells that sound like Santa is coming and the honeymoon suite of our dreams!!!! Thank you thank you thank you Mum and John!! We had the deluxe room with the back ...

... cafe.Hummm. On se demande ou il le cache le bon cafe. Nous avons droit seulement a un cafe avec tout les grains broyes dans le fond de la tasse. Donc on commence par le sucre, le lait, on brasse le tout et devons attendre 5 min que tout se redepose dans le fond. Nous avons droit seulement a 2-3 de la tasse puisque nous arrivons vite au graine. Bisouxxxxx France et Rejean.

... our Jetstar flight to Denpasar, Bali. I swear there had to be about 40 staff travelling on this flight but luckily we managed to get a place on the plane. Once we went through the customs we noticed there were a lot of renovations happening on the airport and there was only 1 real place where you could buy food. I hope it will be better when the renovations are complete. Anyway, while waiting to ...

... Monket Forest Sanctuary, and evidently the monkeys considered their territory a little larger than the people did. While leaping across the rooves above us, they sent very large tiles hurtling off the roof. Our hotel guy seemed to take it in stride. Apparently it happens a lot, judging by the stock of roof tiles he has. The Hindu-Balinese culture is very strong here. Every shopfront and house has a personal shrine out front. Several times ...

... travels of SE Asia. Again the whole journey in the car was brillinat seeing so much and our driver was excellent. We went through Ubud which was to be our next destination after Kuta and I was very impressed. We stopped at the rice terraces which looked spectacular just a shame there were so many people around trying to sell you something. On teh way we get to see a number of villages as we climb up into the mountains. We end up stopping at a restaurant to ...