Villa Tresna
Travel Blogs from Seminyak
Hol dem Nutten ran!
... br> Piepenhoe hat kaum wütend 45 Minuten vor dem Eingang des Parks auf ihn und Mister P gewartet... Ohne Geldbeutel ohne Handy. Ein großes Vergnügen bei 35° im Schatten.
Überrascht über Piepenhoes Abwesenheit und dennoch gelassen betrat Jimbo weitere 25 Minuten später das ...
Surfing in Bali
In my mind, I could stand-up on the board, but the reality was something totally different. In the two years I’d been away from a surf board, I had lost almost all my skills. I could still read the
waves a bit and avoid getting pummeled by a big set but my pop-up was gone. I just couldn’t get my feet underneath me during the first day of surfing in Bali; I was very frustrated. ...
JBR pt1! Pink caps, tap water & Bintangs n cabanas
... Padma (I think that's where we are) and are surprised by the shop owners all vying for our attention. We look for a pink cap but it's hot & we are walking increasingly slower. This type of shopping isn't what we like about Bali so we grab a cab and head back to recover. The cabby we get is new. It's his first time to The Royal and perhaps his first time to a hotel. He parks in the middle of the port cochere instead of driving through it he parks across it! The ...
Abstinence in Paradise
... higher than that. So anyway my Vietnamese bargaining skills were no match for my Australian friend Helen. OMG this woman was tenacious to put it mildly. I'm sure when she got done with the sellers they probably had to sit down for a rest but also I am sure they enjoyed her work too. She was an artist. She'd start with a price close to the basement and would move up in such small increments that she would generally get the items for close to what the seller paid for them ...
Ubud - Part two
... when we went to see the famous Balinese Legong dance. Now there are various troupes doing dances all over Ubud every night but the quality varies from amateur to top class professionals. Thankfully we did our research and our show was by the latter kind. Wow, what a performance! Basically the dance tells the story about a King who tries to force a maiden to love him. As she won’t he keeps her captive. The ...