Indonesia

Leaving the wonderful shores of Bali 14-10-2008

We have had a wonderful time in Bali with many adventures, the local people are generally always friendly, even the police when you are handing over 50,000 to 100,000 Rp for some made up non illegal bike or car infraction. There is plenty to do and I think we managed to do a reasonable amount [...]

13Oct2008 | onefix | 2 comments | Continued

Gili Air – Lombok

They call Gili Air the small island but after studying it on Google earth and seeing it close up I would say that it is in fact larger than Meno.
All the islands have a distinct atmosphere and personality and Air was definitely the most traditional and appeared the most influenced by Islam. It was more [...]

13Oct2008 | Hanna | 1 comment | Continued

Gili Meno – Lombok

The boat journey across to Meno was easy and smooth (20,000 Rp each) – we motored our way around the southerly point of the island and saw what looked like an epic right hand wave breaking hard on the coral reef.
We arrived at the boat drop off point and made it up onto the beach [...]

12Oct2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued

Three nights at Coral Beach 2 on Gili Trawangan – Lombok

The sea, beach and snorkelling from Coral Beach 2 were all amazing – we felt the sea life was as impressive as the Perhentian Islands ten years ago. The sea was warm and clear – the beach white and sandy without too much coral to cut feet. Gavin went snorkelling several times on his own [...]

12Oct2008 | Hanna | 2 comments | Continued

Gili Trawangan Lombok

A late night packing and then an early early morning start (30-09-08) a quick goodbye to Tehya’s Australian friend Owen and we were jumping into the free mini bus that was booked to take us to Benoa and the Blue Water Express boat company. Our tickets to the Gili’s were not cheap 2,600,000 Rp in [...]

9Oct2008 | Hanna | 1 comment | Continued

Off To The Gili Islands

We have decided to go and visit the Gili Islands just across from Lombok and will be out of contact until the 11th October a few days before we leave the wonderful shores of Bali.
{w:600;h:300} Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia
(Map of the Gili Islands – Trawangan, Meno and Air just [...]

29Sep2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

Our Macbook Has Fried Another Harddisk

Yet again our only form of communication has decided to die. The Macbook 2.16GHz Mid 2007 Model has killed yet again another Harddrive. I have seen many similar stories on the net about 2 or 3 harddisk having to be replaced in macbooks.
Thankfully after years of seeing customers lose all their valuable information I have [...]

22Sep2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

Ubud and The Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary – Mandala Wista Wenara Wana

The drive to Ubud was hard, we were already tired from driving around the Amed coast and our inland search for tourist sights that morning. We are becoming used to our decision making processes though. We tend to make last minute decisions about most things. The process tends to go: research, chat, more research, decision [...]

21Sep2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued

An East Coast Adventure – Part 2 Amed

It is surprising how tired and worn you can feel after a few days of travel, when we woke the following day we certainly felt the effects from our adventures. We had gone to bed quite late the previous evening as Tehya and George’s daughter were having so much fun (Iona has a fine collection [...]

20Sep2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

An East Coast Adventure-Sanur-Candidasa-Amed

Getting ready!!
Two days before Becca left Bali Gavin started to get itchy feet and hired a moped for five days. We have been curious to check out the east coast of Bali for some time now – it is the only part of the coast we have not been too. So we started to plan [...]

17Sep2008 | Hanna | 1 comment | Continued

Aunty Becca – Tears at the airport

It was awful…. as the last few days drifted by we all felt an impending doom and sadness at the prospect of Becca leaving and flying home. The hardest part of being away from home has always been missing the people we love the most. Saying goodbye is never easy… but this had a very [...]

13Sep2008 | onefix | 2 comments | Continued

Aunty Becca – Mountains and Monkeys

As we had made our way to Lovina via the Pupuan road, we decided the return journey to Kuta should take us around Mount Tapak and through the three great lakes Tamblingan, Buyan and Beratan. The winding road up from Singaraja to the first lake brought many laughs and gasps of wonder at the ever [...]

13Sep2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

Aunty Becca – Lovina and the Dolphins

We booked into the Rini hotel for two nights as we had little planned except to relax more and visit with Ayu and and her children at Apple Warung. After our early night and some much needed sleep we were all feeling a little better – although Becca’s throat was still incredibly sore…. we all [...]

10Sep2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued

Aunty Becca – Balian to Lovina with a sore throat

We left Kuta in high spirits with a very full car!!! It is hard enough to fit two adults and one child with all their luggage into a Suzuki Jimmy - let alone three adults, a child and all their luggage! With Gavin’s genius packing we managed and you could even say that we had [...]

7Sep2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued

Aunty Becca visits Bali

Becca arrived from England on the 21st of August – we met her from Denpasar airport full of excitement and eager anticipation. Gavin had been tracking her flight from Heathrow via Singapore to Denpasar and was full of anxiety. As we waited for her to come through from the arrivals lounge he kept pacing the [...]

5Sep2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued

Tehya is now officially a Big girl – no dummy!!!

For a month or so before her birthday we explained that the dummy fairies (cousins of the tooth fairies) visit kids the night after their birthdays and exchange the dummy (dot in Indonesian) for a gift.
Tehya loves anything to do with fairies, angels, princesses so she was looking forward to the visit.
The night of the [...]

19Aug2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

Crocodile Games with Nana

To Nana
Tehya says she misses you very much.
This is a picture of you both being lipstick girls in bed (under the covers) playing the crocodile game. Please note the big teeth
Tehya hopes to see you at the beginning of September so she can play again she would also like to show you all the musical [...]

19Aug2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued

Going back to Balian for a week from Monday 11-08-08

We are going back to Balian for a week, so that Tehya can play with a few friends and to get away from Kuta, as we seem to have managed very little since being here in the last 3 weeks. We have had a few phone calls from Dan, Oble and family asking when we [...]

10Aug2008 | onefix | 3 comments | Continued

Tehya’s 4th Birthday 09-08-08

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEHYA!!!!!!
Tehya was too excited for sleep last night, she swapped between her bed and ours all night and probably slept for a grand total of 2 hours…….. if that.
She had just managed to fall asleep around 7.30am when her aunty Becca and Nan Carol called on Skype.
She woke up super excited and ripped [...]

9Aug2008 | onefix | 6 comments | Continued