Generally, admitting yourself to hospital during a trip isn't something you look back on with fondness but it's not often you get your own room with AC and a reliably hot shower, decent WiFi and three meals a day which you select off a menu delivered to your bed whilst you watch movies on HBO. [...]
There's this water temple just north of Ubud that I'd really wanted to see but by the time we got to the area during our Big Bali Scooter Tour it was too late, but now I'm out of hospital and my lungs are behaving themselves we figured we could just nip up there from Padang [...]
Turns out that spending the night on a boat docked at a port isn't conducive to a good night's sleep. Fuck me, ports are noisy places. Add to that I'd developed a mean cough over the previous couple of days, I think my hacking would have kept half of Labuan Bajo awake. We'd had a [...]
So it turns out that travel sickness tablets block up both ends. Who knew? I kind of just figured my colon had gone on strike in protest at the whole being on a boat thing which not many of my organs were particularly chuffed about but nope, I woke up at some god awful hour [...]
I wouldn't have rated my sleep as quality last night but the back and forth rocking of the boat was much less traumatic than the side to side of the other night. I opened my eyes and peered outside. The sky was on fire! What a stunning sunrise. My basic motor functions grudgingly agreed to [...]
It was bang on 2am when the engines, as promised the previous night, fired up. I can sleep through noise as long as it's constant. Even constant-ish, like traffic or music or radio chatter. The engines weren't an issue, but fuck my life the sea was rough. Thanks to the tablets I was chucking into [...]
So we bought our boat trip from a bloke called Ludi who had a stall outside of the $5 shop on Gili T which kind of serves us right really. We paid Rp2,000,000 each for all-inclusive deck class and it turns out we got a little bit ripped off but hey, that's on us and [...]
The Gili Islands are known to be idyllic paradises free from dogs and motorised vehicles, not that dogs are much of a thing in Indonesia. Muslims don't tend to like dogs so they don't keep them around and even the dogs we met on Hindu Bali were owned by someone and only tended to have [...]
By the time you make it from one side of Bali to the other you'll have built anti-scam defences to rival Fort Knox and you'll be so used to getting ripped off you don't even blink when someone tries to triple charge you for a bemo. Rp40,000 for lunch? Seems reasonable, here, take my wallet. [...]
For what is essentially a relatively small chunk of rock sticking out above sea level Bali has a lot of shit going on for it, predominantly in the form of Hindu temples. Everywhere you look there's a temple. Strolling through a forest? There'll be a temple. In a homestay? There'll be a temple. If there's [...]
Travel & Shit 