Day 88

Day 88 Bali

As from yesterday, you may have gathered that we are no longer in Australia, we are in Bali. Well we started the day with breakfast. Tia, Lesley, Sam and Rebecca had arranged a day tour already so we tagged along. The tour was to see some Balinese dancing, then silver works, then wood works, then monkey forest and then back to Legian. That was fine to start with, we got to the silver works and as usual the umpteen steps were too much for me so the tour guide and I sat outside and had coffee and biscuits with the other drivers. After the silver works we hijacked the tour and decided that we would go to Ubud direct. The wood works where not much use as you have problems with customs and such. We had some pictures from when we were here earlier in the year and we wanted to show them our rooms at the Bali Rich. We had intended to mail the pictures to the Bali Rich so they could hand them out, but the tour was going to Ubud so it was a win win. Ubud was chockers. The traffic was at a standstill as they were doing major re-curbing work as well as building a huge wood structure for some ones funeral and had shut down the street. There is a lovely café here called Casa Luna and we love their cakes. As the traffic was so slow we put the girls out and they walked down the road to the café to buy the cakes. The tour guide got out as well to see where they were going and on the way back picked up a coffee for me and the driver, talk about service – I love Bali coffee, so much better than at home. As the traffic got to the shop, the girls were ready, hopped in and away we went to Bali Rich.

The staff there remembered us and made a fuss of Maureen and showed them around the rooms and came out to see me. The place is just as we remembered it. We then loaded up and drove back to Legian. We had dinner and ended up back at the hotel for a swim.

The blog will suffer because of our time here in Bali.  I will do a special blog when we get back with pictures when I get on to my own computer.