In Reply to: Colleen posted by Mic on Friday, 18. February 2005 at 06:17 Bali Time:
this is what the huge joke was about me walking the streets of Legian looking for Helen,(this was when I was getting the Kuta cowboys coming out of the woodwork & was later teased about it by Bopgirl & others)It certainly was an interesting experience/day <LOL> especially when our son was with me some of the time & wasn't impressed with some of the comments I was getting !
I knew I had read on BTF about getting a new card & then adding 200,000 on it would give 6 months use & this is what Helen wanted.She gave us the money when a small group of Adelaide forumites got together for the Service for the tsunami victims & then had drinks & dinner afterwards.
I was determined to find what I was after but Helen had said she wanted a Simpati card.After walking from one end of Legian to the other end of Kuta up & down just about every street for 4 hours I found out there was no such thing available for a Simpati card.I have since learnt from Bopgirl & Tony G that if you want your card to last for 6 months then the only way to go is to get a ProXL card.I have full details written down in one of my note books about various phone cards - from the info I was told in various shops .I will find it over the weekend but as I said TonyG & Bopgirl each have bought these cards & may know some more info than I do.
BTW - After going into just about every place that sold phone cards in Kuta & Legian I thought the place that was most useful re phone info was in Jalan Pantai Kuta as you are heading away from the beach - up from bemo corner towards Jalan Imam Bonjol.The phone shop was almost opposite the BCA bank.