Villa Diana Bali Legian

... Justine and Pieter are both chefs. So when I come home I can do us up a special feast. Todays spa treatment is a facial. You can't wear any makeup, it just melts off. So we are pretty much a la natural. Just sunblock and go. You save so much time not worrying about hair and makeup. We only have a week left so have to get a lot done next week. Talk again soon. Please email me xxx

... mongoose coffee. The most expensive coffee in the world.($80 cup in Aust).
Food has been great and cheap. Lots of banana pancakes.They do a lovely ginger lime drink and lassi drinks. Had banana cream caramel one night. There are some great restaurants.
We have seen the elephants and monkey forest.
We got to legian on Wed. We are all millionaires in Bali. Gary broke the bank when ...

... know well over his many visits to Bali. For him Bill hauled comfortable camping chairs in his luggage in exchange for his low beer prices!

It was Trudy’s birthday on the Friday and we arranged to meet her and Bill, plus Maddi their daughter and her boyfriend Sam, for dinner to celebrate at Kori, a Restaurant (Western Food) in Poppies Lane II in Kuta. We enjoyed our first plate of beef since we arrived. Mum and Dad took the kids home early and we stayed a little ...

... an hour being out there, only 50 minutes of which were tracked running and walking and 5 miles clocked in, I found home. Of course, I was also locked out of the back gate and had to jump over the fence, which was a challenge in its itself, but being so close to home gave me the energy I needed. I later found out that the "lock" was not locked, but was just in place as if to fool people like me. Luckily I left early enough to give myself the extra needed time before we ...

... paintings at our hotel and suggested we have a look. I wasn't really in the mood to look at the paintings, and certainly wasn't ready to buy anything before having a good look around the town. But we had a seat and watched his one-man painting show. In the end, we found a set of paintings we liked -- images of Buddhist gods painted in intricate detail. We negotiated and finally settled on a price (probably a bit steep, because he was ...

... there was more detail everywhere I looked. That's pretty much the exact experience I had at every tourist restaurant around Ubud :). I scurried back to make my massage on time. Perversely, even with men offering to drive me anywhere as I walked briskly back, I didn't ask anyone because I had no idea how much was right, and didn't want to negotiate. I made it back in time, though, and even felt a leetle bit exercised to justify the massage ;-). Both the Green ...

... gloffe, immer nach de suechi nachem 'waltzing matilda" restaurant. will hinder dem isch vor 22 jahr d bungalow-alag gstande, wo am toubi sis mami es jahr gwohnt und ihn zur welt bracht het. neu underem name "teras" bekannt simer nach mehrmaligem froege fuendig worde. doch leider sind hinderem neue restaurant kei offni, sondern nur vo muure umsuemti bungalows azfinde xi. en local het eus zum huus vode ehemalige bsitzer gfuehrt, wo nur d tochter wo gradmal ...

... paradise. Days of lounging by the clear water of the ocean on those too-comfortable Horizontal loungers. Nights of imbibing on Bali bought alcohol. Free entertainment on Eugene's laptop, affordable numbing of the senses, walking the lengths of Sentral, biking around the entirety of the island for the first time, and unreal settings of the sun, of course... Ultimately, we ended up spending a total of 20 nights over the course of two visits to this beautiful place. And I already miss it again.

I have been having trouble adjusting to the time change here and have been waking up every morning between 4-5....and can not go back to sleep, so after my amazing breakfast on my veranda, ( that wasn't until 8 am) I headed out to do some exploring before the day got too hot, which seems to start around 9 am. My guest house is on the outskirts of the main town, which is nice and quiet, and also not too far from walking distance to ...

... very well at all), and found ourselves looking at a huge fallen stone statue. Very little distinguishing remained about it (the vague outline of a face, the top of a headdress), but the space was amazing and it was so clear why this would be a sacred space because it was so secluded and peaceful. I like the way they've done the archaeology: they clearly excavated the site, but then they've left it as pristine as they could. No attempt at reconstruction or rebuilding, and ...