This travelling lark is not all its cracked up to be...

P9250018
Originally uploaded by Frickley.

...its much better!

Finally we have found an internet café with a reasonable connection, keyboard and a mouse that works most of the time! Arrgghh! I can now catch up with the footy results :-)

I had a bit of a mishap a couple of days ago… I was getting money out of a nice row of air conditioned cash points… the machine I tried didn’t work so I turned to go to the next one and bang – I hit my head on a glass wall between the machines. I felt my knees go weak as I nearly collapsed on the floor. Fran said that my eye balls rolled to the back of my head! No major damage done (pride apart!). I did feel dizzy for about 3 hours afterwards though. Boy do the Balinese know how to clean windows!

After recovering from my head injury we went off on a serious shopping trip. I have discovered my shopping limit is about 4 hours – we shopped for 5! Fran could have kept going I think! Bought a Tag Heure watch for 3 quid :-) Hopefully it will last longer than Fran’s Gucci which stopped before we made it back to the hotel.

On Wednesday we went to Waterbom Park (http://www.waterbom.com/), which was great fun. We did all the slides except the Death Smash which looked like it would give you whip lash from the vertical drop. We did do the Boomerang on a double tube. I could feel Fran’s heart pounding before we even started the climb to the top. After a bit of persuasion we kicked off and went round a couple of gentle bends – no problem we thought – until we got round the corner onto a sheer drop! We shot down with incredible speed and were flung up a steep u-bend which we came back down backwards. Fran was panting and laughing hysterically for about 5 minutes afterwards. For a moment I thought I was going to have to get her committed!

We moved hotel to the Inna Kuta Beach Hotel (http://www.innakutabeach.com/) which is fantastic. It’s quite quiet in Bali at the mo because the rainy season is due to start shortly and the bombs haven’t helped. It hasn’t rained since we got here though and the temperature is just about right. We are staying in a lovely beach bungalow which we got for under half its normal price (4 nights booked).

On Monday we will probably head in land and stay in Ubud. We are going to look at hiring a jeep as that will give us the freedom to explore. Kuta is a bit manic on the roads but we are sure that it’s less busy when we get out of the town. They drive on the left which should make it easier.