Here we are in Bali - for the people who didn't take notice in the geography class at school, Bali is an island which is part of Indonesian. This is the first step towards the last part of our trip through Asia.We left Oz on 31st Jan and for those of you who wonder how far behind the blog is, we are still in Bali now (10th Feb), but these pictures start from the 1st Feb!
We didn't really know how to start our time in Bali, but as luck would have it we received an e-mail from Kevin and Sarah who we met in Fiji (they're from England too), they were in Bali on their last night when we arrived, so we had a great night catching up with them and getting some top tips! It was really sad that they had to leave the next day (they actually changed their flights to stay longer but found out that they didn't have any time left on their visa and had to change the flights back!!).
We're staying in a place called Sanur, which we will be using as a base while we are here. This is the beach at Sanur, which is normally fairly quiet being out of season (this is the wet season, which means it normally rains once a day). That's a typical Balinese boat - a kind of canoe with stabilizers on.At festival times the kids dress up in masks and this kind of pantomime dragon thing and come around the restaurants to collect money - this is me being 'caught' for a few thousand rupiah.
This was a little bonus, we booked a simple bungalow at this place (Flashback's) and when we arrived they had double booked - so we got the penthouse for the same price, it was a really superb place - in fact so good we changed the booking for five days (at the same price of course) and gave ourselves a real treat. We even had a DVD player and TV, haven't seen one of them for ages. You can get any DVD you like here for about 50 pence. Even DVD's that are not in the movies yet are on the stalls here!
Elvis showing off the swimming pool, which is salt water so there's none of those nasty chemicals!
These pictures were taken on a Sunday when it seems all the Balinese head for the beach. There's also street vendors out selling satay chicken and bbq'd corn
Can you imagine if you parked your bike amongst this lot?
This picture is Elvis' paradise. It's a health spa which does all the massages and treatments a woman could desire.Look we're rich beyond our wildest dreams! Each one of those notes is a 50,000 Rp note and there's 40 of them there, that makes us double millionaires. Ok - back to earth and a free cup of tea for the closest guess to how much that is really worth! (Dollars or Pounds will do).
New friends - this is Nuala and Lee from England (Lee is a big Aston Villa fan and he forced me to watch three football matches on the trot late one night/early morning) and Philipe and Georgia from Greece and Italy. Philipe and Georgia live in Corfu town so we've promised to look them up next time we visit the Greek Islands. After this we headed off on the 'Scoot' boat for a few days on another Indonesian island - Lembongan, but that's got to be another blog!
6 comments:
Hi Billies!
You both look so well. In answer to the cup-o-tea question, I don't care how much that money is really worth, cos Elvis looks like a million dollars!!
Love ya's
Shirley Von Curly xxx
PS - Was I first to comment?...again?! Eee, imagine that! ;-)
hi suzanne and keith the pics look good and you both look happy.hoping to speak to you soon... hello shirley seen you both on the drive the other night l think you were fixing your bikes,love mammy elves.
hope you bought the Villa fan a beer after they stuffed the mags 4-1 on Saturday.
Spoke to BBM yesterday - he said he was up to date with the blog, and I suggested it was about time he actually made a comment. He said he'd been warned off making a comment by you Mr Hodge and that his only comment so far would be about the picture of 5 boys on the beach. I've have to agree with you.
When he found out that starting a Blog was free, he said he was going to start one himself, but Hovis suggested to him that a weekly blog about the goings on in High Usworth might not be as interesting as yours.
Mam Elves - I think you must have been looking at the wrong drive. The furthest Shirley's bike has been in the last couple of years is around the Dining Room table twice! Still, she made best use of the laps by using chairs to make a chicane.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah = 110.984 British Pound
cup of tea for me and schmenny ??
Does that mean that your budget for Bali is 2 million and then you're out of there? Better find some friends to live with and quick!!
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