Another Xmas is with us & its off to Bali again on my thirty fourth trip to our Island of the Gods.
I leave this Friday 21st on Garuda out of Melbourne for a total of thirty five days which will include a quick nine day visit to Thailand.
We are all having Xmas Day at the Raddison in Sanur which will be huge.
On the 27th Im going up to the village at Sambangan in Singaraja to visit my sponsored family from the Helen Flavel Foundation.
This will also be a good day going to the food market, stocking up their food supplies & then off to an electrical store to buy my two girls some sort of electrical device which will probably be an I Pod each or something simular.
Then all have lunch together at a restaurant, then kisses & tears & back to Legian via a Bintang stop at Crackers Bar.
Not staying overnight in Singaraja this trip,as I have to meet up with a friend of mine Brian from Woollongong at the Indo National that evening & I havent seen him for a while.
To keep the cost down I am only getting a ten day visa first off & so will fly to Bangkok on 29th December being picked up at the airport in a car & down to Pattaya for eight nights returning to Bali on the 6th January.
I havent been to Thailand for just on ten years when Anne was alive but I suppose Pattaya wont have changed much.
How could one change Pattaya????
Then its just a wander around my usual haunts being with my friends, local & ex-pats for the remainder of the holiday till I fly home on Thursday 24th January.
Then believe it or not its AFL time again & we have our first intra club game at Moorabbin on the 8th February.
If anyone from the BTF wants to meet up I will be at Sammy & Susys most evenings around 4pm.
My Bali number is the same as usual 08174742295.
Have a Merry Xmas & a Happy New year everybody.