We live three hours north west of Brisbane, and today is hotter and drier than we have been for the last two weeks in Bali!!!
Our Family of nine flew Air Australia/Strategic.....great flight, great service.......very happy (going to Bali!!)
I had organised "Ricky's Pub Bus" for a transfer(Thanks Broddy!), and that was quite comical...maybe just a bit squishy for our lot with ALL that luggage and surfboards!!! And the bus is a bit "Rustic!) but the loud music and the cold drinks did the trick and we were happy to ne in Bali!!
Our accomodation for the whole two weeks(longest time in one place ever!) was White Pavillion (tricky to find, hidden down a small gang Durian, off the top end of Jl Werkudara near where they are building a giant place called "Aq ua" taxis didn't mind going down there so all good and a vacant block down the end for turning around !Another access path with a locked gate brought us conveniently to "Luna Spa on the left and "Legong Spa" on the right GRANNY senang sekali , very happy!!! and short walk to "Mugshots iced coffee WITH icecream and whipped cream!!! Up Gang Durian to "Chandra leather" and the other one can't remember, Daughter, Grand Daughter and DaughterInlaw all sporting new bags, new leather jackets mmmmmmmhappy girls.
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The Villa.........4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms, nice garden big, clean pool.....plenty of space, staff perfect, just the way we like them.....friendly and not fussing about all day...in clean up, make beds, laugh have a joke learn some bahasa Indo/english...bye bye........can you get big water bottle........yea no problem 15,000rp ! excellent..... we were very happy here at "The Pav"
Boys got motorbikes, they were happy...as the traffic was crazy worst ever.
Two more Family members made us eleven for dining, and had no problems anywhere
Did all four Warungs Ricky's (best burgers!),Petite (best pancakes), Paticks (best Duck) and Wali s everything !! I think we were very hungry that day.......
Did most of the Legian Beach Blue Ocean, Zanzibar, Seaside (best coconut granita!!), Lannai.......Did Tropical what a hoot, had a ball there, TakeII Jl Padma
for the yummiest sashimi (3 times!!!)
Older family went to Sante Fe in Seminyak for a fun adult night out apparently they had too much fun.....Me (Granny) took my 3 Grandchildren to Mara Lodge at the Safari Park for that night...we had a great time in the park for the day and a half,....!!
We all did ATV/Buggies and white water rafting ....yes all on the same day!!! and what a day it was.............yet another "best day ever" voted 11 out of the 11 of us, even me and the bloody 520 steps down to river, which I found to be the most beautful view luckily distracted me from the "those "steps.....the killers for me were the 230 back up at the end, but I made it and even managed to buy two beautiful batik sarongs on the way haggling all the way to the top and I am sure she only gave me the ridiculously cheap price cause she felt sorry for me !!! We got two feeds one after the buggies which all 11 of us devoured in the pouring rain, filthy....and happy.
The other feeding frenzy was after the WWR.....just before the crawl up those bloody steps!!!
We had a very different Xmas , low key...we bought the usual crap, boys surfed the front beach (legian) and Serangan...
We spent 9/10 of the 14 days every afternoon in front of Blue Ocean with "Errol" and the boys,drinks gallons of coke and of course BINTANGS we bought heaps of "stuff" of Jeni, Wayan., Made, Ketut, Made, Debi, Nyoman, Putu, and every kid who entertained us we bought the braclets, not one at a time but bundles, we would buy the whole lot and then have a chat and eat pancakes, nasis,and laugh and then laugh some more.........
The final amazing, awesome and downright bloody frightening experience was and will always be....New Years Eve .......WOW...Legian Beach was as if all the chinese fireworks factories had exploded at once!!! Parents fret about letting their kids go to Bali for Schoolies, me personally think I would not be letting my teenagers (especially boys!!) be there for this must be pyromaniacs heaven. One young Aussie near us was taken to hospital!
A great holiday.......
Strategic/Air Autralia....not so good on the return....4 hr delay, service ok everyone had to be reallocated seats....we got the ones that don't recline but the people infront seemed to be in out lap!!!
But it is a bit like that anyway for me coming home is not a happy time .........luckily we were at the airport for original checkin so we spent 4 hrs in the Dewi Lounge, drank them out of coke,coffee and beer and ate all the food and the kids were happy on the computers and four of us had massages and foots just one last time.....boo hoo
:( Sorry if this was a bit long and boring.......but if I waited till next week it would have been REALLY boring as the Bali Blues sets in :) Deb