Bali - Indonesia Days 119-133

We're in Singapore at the moment and it's been brilliant fun but more about that from Kimmy later.

Bali has been our longest stay in any one town on our travels so far. We were in transit for about 2 days, leaving Katherine by bus on the 10th to Darwin, then a flight to Brisbane at 1am, another flight the next day to Singapore at 11pm and finally back down to Bali. Makes amockery of our carbon footprint when you consider that Bali is only about 2 hours away from Darwin!

It's our 1st time in a 3rd world country so it took some getting used but truthfully our accommodation made it a breeze. One of the recommendations from our Canadian mates we met on Fraser Island (thanks Mike) was to book into theMassa Inn in Kuta and once settled we couldn't bring our selves to move anywhere else. We had plans to visit the Gili Islands off Lombok but quite frankly we were shattered from the last 3 months of Go,Go,Go in US, NZ and Oz.

Bali is ridiculously cheap - as a result we spent our few days eating drinking, lazying by the pool and watching TV in our air conditioned room when the heat got too much. We were originally scheduled to stay 7 days but, were so chuffed at being able to do f*ck all that we thought it best to extend our stay. A quick trip to Singapore airlines at the airport did the trick. Interestingly, we found out that there was NO charge to changing our flights if we approach the airlines directly. Something thetravel agents fail to mention when they sell you a round the world trip ticket.....useful to know when you travel one day.

Bali has been the route to all evil. Apart from smoking a pack a day, eating 3 course meals 3 times a day and doing no exercise I now also find myself in the Facebook family. Kim managed to lose Stef's email and Darren (as we found out later) junked my email address because he thought some dodgy guy called "Kowalski" was trying to sell him more Viagra. So I reluctantly joined up and an within a day managed to find Darren and Stef on the other side of the Island.

They joined us at the Massa Inn by the pool for the next 10days and the only excitement we had was trying to find a new restaurant to go to to fill our belly's again!

I think we slightly regret not doing more in Bali but we needed the break from packing our backpacks every second day. It was great to spend time with Darren and Stef - They are now officially on the growing list - and we'll be commissioning Stef (she is a fine arts student) to paint her London night portrait soon.

Couple more months to go and we're running out of money FAST - Hopefully Vietnam and Co are cheaper than Singapore.