Monday, 13 May 2013

Our last ever blog........

We have been home for 3 days now and are slowly getting back to normal. For me it's sitting on the sofa watching TV, going for a game of snooker, having a roast dinner and having dozens of cups of tea (made by Mum and Dad, too lazy to make it myself). To summarise our last 4 months we are going to do a "best and worse of..." and see our similar our answers will be!


Best Country:
James: I thought the best country and I would recommend for anyone to go to even if it was for just a 2 week holiday is Thailand. I heard a lot of good things about it and wasn't disapointed. But I am going to say Vietnam was the best country we went to because I had no expectations, did not know what to expect and seemed to meet a lot of people and visited some good places!
Georgia: Thailand, it has the best of both worlds. Really secluded beaches, yet really busy ones. The food is good and cheap; plus Chang is cheap ;) Its a very pretty place, with some much to see/do.

Worse Country:
James: It's a bit harsh to call one of the countries is the worst but if I had to miss one out it would be either Laos or Indonesia, but I probably prefered Indonesia because of Bali. So if there was any country that we could have missed out is Laos, as only Luang Prabang was worth seeing. There was a few good things to do in Laos and certainly wasn't rubbish but overall could have easily been missed out!
Georgia: There isn't really a worse counrty, but if there was a country we could have skipped out it would have been Indonesia, still good nonetheless. Indonesia was very authentic to say the least, the only place worth visiting is Bali. The rest can be skipped. 

Best City:
James: I think Bangkok would be up there and is the best city that we visited, we actually went there twice! First time round we was just thankful of escaping India and staying in a luxury hotel surrounded by skyscrapers in the business district. The second time round when we was feeling a lot better we stayed on Khao San Road in Bangkok where all the backpackers go and is one street with a load of street food, restaurants, bars.
Georgia: Bangkok- Lived up to the Hangover film. When again in the future, Am I going to visit a strip club with James and watch a ping ping show!? LOL.

Worst City:
James: Although it was for just a night, Agra springs to mind almost immediately. I would be very surprised if Georgia didn't say the same. Everything about Agra was bad, the hotel, the whole place and even the train leaving was like a cattle market.
Georgia: Vientiane in Laos, was pretty boring and not much to do. Laos in general was a close second for the worst place category . It just seemed like a very boring place to be, with nothing to see or do!

Best Island/Resort:
James: Sihanoukville in Cambodia was my best place as it was ridiculously cheap for food and drink, a beach with a strip of bars and clubs. We also went on a booze cruise and met a few people that we will hopefully stay in contact with. The hotels that we stayed in wasn't great but dinner and drinks after was always a good laugh for the 6 nights we were there! For example, fish and chips was about 85p, we also went to a barbecue a couple of nights where you could have 3 bits of different meat, garlic bread, side salad, and a jacket potato for £2. The average price of a beer was 50p and a vodka a £1 at most! It was a place I would definitely go back and would be good to go with a group of mates. We have been to more scenic places with better beaches but this place made up for it in other ways!
Georgia: Sihanoukville in Cambodia, best place because I wasn't expecting it to be so western. We met some really nice people and had a week of clubbing in the sunshine :)

Best Beach:
James: Beaches on the Thai islands spring to mind, including the time me, Georgia and Rob had breakfast on the beach in Koh Tao. We also went to one in Koh Samui when we took a moped around the island and we found a nice deserted beach.
Georgia: The beach in Hoi An in Vietnam where we rode bicycles to the beach. I havent been on a bike for some years, so for me to enjoy a bike ride and a beach, is literally saying something lol!

Best Hotel:
James: It would probably be the hotel that we paid the most for which was in Bangkok for £38 a night to recover from India. The room would have easily cost about £200 in London and had it's own kitchen, a bathtub which is rare in Asia, bathrobes and was just modern and everything worked! Georgia even cooked me a meal one night! Rooms that also worth a mention was the shed we stayed in at Pai, the hostel we stayed in at Singapore and the Villa we stayed in Lombok was nice.
Georgia: The Quinlins, in Pai in Thailand because it was empty and peaceful. The owners were like your family, and after India this is just what we needed. 

Worst Hotel:
James: The worse hotel would have been Agra because of no heating and the location was similar to downtown Baghdad Also, the place in Lombok, Indonesia for one night was pretty bad when even the toilet roll was not included with the room.
Georgia: In Lombok for the night , dirty bed sheets and a toilet with no flush. It wasn't even worth seven English pounds!

Worse journey:
James: The 20 hour journey from Singapore back home via Saudi Arabia sounds bad but it was not too bad really. The worse journey would have been maybe going from Bangkok to the full moon party which was about 18 hours on a bus and boat. The bus wasn't even a sleeper bus like they claimed. There were a lot of bad journeys in truth including a 20 hour bus journey from Vietnam to Laos and had screaming Vietnamese men screaming every hour waking us up. Also when I was in a coffin on the top bunk of a train was pretty bad!
Georgia: The slow boat to Laos, travelling all night and had only 3 hours sleep, hardly a hotel for a night like the travel agent claimed. The journey was so uncomfortable...

High Point:
James: One of the many nights out in Sihanoukville or maybe when we went trekking in Thailand as we had a good group of people with us!
Georgia: Cameron Highlands,where we visited the tea factories and then had the best afternoon tea in the mountains. A very British day :)

Low Point:
James: On the train from Agra to Delhi where I was addicted to imodium and it didn't quite last for the whole of the journey. Lets just say I could see the tracks when I was in the toilet.
Georgia: India..... James and myself being ill :( I was so worried for James, he has a fever alongside everything else. So glad we both got better :)

Best Excursion:
James: Trekking in Chiang Mai in Thailand
Georgia: The S21 prison in Cambodia got to see the aftermath of the civil war. Was a very heavy day. I'm a history buff, therefore this was one of the best excursions for me.

Best Night Out:
James: Most people probably would say full moon party but I wouldn't do it again although it was a good night! I can't really choose a good night out, maybe Luang Prabang when we went to an underground bowling alley. Also in Hoi An, in Vietnam when we started the night out with a nice meal with a couple we met and ended up at a bar that just started up and was basically someone's house and played pool tournaments all night lol
Georgia: Luang Prabang bowling alley - the hangover the next day was such a shame. I will never drink beer t that excess again... such a good night, shame about the morning haha!

Best Meal:
James: Probably a curry in Laos, I think Georgia persuaded me that was the best meal as it must have had a million different spices in it!
Georgia: Eating our first western meal after India, In Chiang Mai. A god ole' fashioned pie and mash!

Worse Meal:
James: The undercooked cheeseburgers in Koh Phangan, they looked like that they were cooked for a whole 2 seconds!
Georgia: When I had to wait 2 hours for my meal which was rice and it come out wrong. How and why? How can you mess up Rice? I paid and then quickly left with a empty stomach!

What we will miss:
James: Not living in the real world back home, the nice beaches and meeting people along the way
Georgia: The sunshine, which obviously makes us all happy :) And spending time with James

What we will definitely not miss:
James: Living out of a suitcase and wearing the same set of clothes for 4 months. Living in about 3-4 different places every week.
Georgia: Rice... I'm literally not eating the stuff for quite some while!

Best Beer:
James: Lao Baeer (Laos)
Georgia: Bintang Beer (Indonesia)

That's all our answers and that's the end of the blog. We have had over 1700 views so we are glad people have actually been reading it!



Final Stats

Days been away: 112 days

Distance travelled: 25,000 miles (approx.)

Countries Visited: 8 (India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore)

Hotels visited: 47

Bus: 21 Times
Boat: 8 Times
Plane: 10 Times
Train: 4 Times
Overnight Journeys: 7 Times
Longest Journey: 26 hours (journey home)



Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Our final stop.....Singapore! :)

Singapore is probably the best city we have been too, it's so modern compared to anywhere else I have been including London. We have only been here for 2 nights and have a couple of hours left before our flight leaves the airport back home, although we have the pleasure of changing flights in Saudi Arabia with a 5 hour stop-over in the airport, can't complain considering it was only 220 pound to get home! Let's get started on Singapore.....

Our flight left Indonesia at 7:30am in the morning so it was an early start and Georgia fell asleep as soon as the wheels left the runway but was hard for me to tell as we were seated 10 rows away from each, it allowed me to spend the last of our currency on food for myself lol. We arrived at the airport and made our way to the train station, the station was so clean and was because there is a £250 fine for even eating or drinking on the trains. The country also has a ban of chewing gum which is another explanation on why the streets are spotless.

Our hostel was located in Little India and we was staying in a dorm with 24 other people which was made up of 8 double beds and 8 single beds and seemed to be full the first night! It was strange as the double beds were on the lower bunk and the single beds were above the double beds on the top bunk.
Strange, but it worked!
We have not stayed in too many hostels and when we have we have had a private room because it has been so cheap. The average basic room with a double bed within Singapore is around a 100 pound a night whereas a double bed in a hotel was 20 pound so it only seemed logical to stay in a dorm. The "boutique" hostel that we are staying in is basically a 5-star hostel if that is possible, and has only been open for a few months. The bathrooms are huge and always clean, there is a big breakfast area, a kitchen and even a games/cinema room. I am currently writing this blog in the hostel on a Apple computer with a huge screen so this hostel is definitely not done on the cheap! The rooms are a little small but we have spent so much time trying to cram in as much of Singapore as we can in 2 days, that we haven't really been in it much!

See we did make it to Australia!
After we checked into the hostel we headed to Singapore Zoo as it had good reviews and the orang-utans had free-roaming of the zoo, basically not in any cages which seemed a good idea. We got there at 2 o'clock a little tired from our early start and had 4 hours to explore the zoo before it shut at 6. Immediately after buying our tickets at the counter, it chucked it down for a solid hour flooding the whole place, thunder and lightning constantly until about 3 o clock whilst we was hiding under shelter. When it stopped we only had a couple of hours left to explore the zoo and we had not even started! I'm not a big animal fan, well zoos to be specific but this was good including seeing kangaroos in the "Australian outback" enclosure as they wasn't in cages and the kangaroos were just walking around not bothered by the people surrounding them. Georgia even fed a giraffe, although I didn't get the camera out fast enough to take a picture. We also saw an elephant show and a seal show which was good. In the end the zoo was a good afternoon out although I was so tired after deciding to eat rather than sleep on the plane earlier in the day.
True fact!
We got back to the hostel at 7pm and after resting my eyes for half hour or so and having a shower, it was off out again! After "googling" and speaking to the staff, we headed to Clarke Quay which was on the river full of restaurants and bars, they even had a Hooters! We was having a heart attack on the price of things though, the price of a pint was around 7 pound and a Jagerbomb was 10 pound! Each bar seemed to have a live band and after having a walk around we found a place offering buy one get one free all night with a band playing inside. We only had one drink as we had been up for so long and we headed back to the dorm and feel straight to sleep.

Temple
The next day Georgia wasn't happy as she was woken up early by kids, should kids even be allowed to be stay in a dorm??? Follow her on twitter to get a jist of how angry she was. They didn't wake me up as I was so tired from the day before, I don't even think an earthquake would have woken me. When I finally managed to get myself out of bed, we had unlimited breakfast, nothing too fancy though; fruit, toast and cereal and we headed to Chinatown recommended by a nice woman working at the hostel. Chinatown was very nice and authentic with lots of stalls selling cheap souvenirs to add to the presents we already bought in Indonesia. We tried a bit of street food and went to a hawker centre, which is where there are dozens of stalls under one-roof selling cheap food so we tried some of the chicken and rice but wasn't nothing special to be honest! We also walked down a street in Chinatown where there were 4 places of worship on one street within a few hundred metres of each other including a Mosque, a Temple, a Wat and a Church which gave Georgia an excuse to get her camera out. Singapore seems very keen on religions working in harmony. We were in Chinatown for a couple of hours before we jumped back on the train to Orchard Street which is basically a less crowded larger version of Oxford Street.

When we got our the station we were surrounded by shops such as Louis Vuitton, Prada and Hugo Boss and other shops that was slightly out of a price-range lol. It was nice to just walk around and people-watch until we come to the end of the street and found a shopping mall to find that there was a Marks & Spencer. We went in there on the off-chance they done food and thankfully they did and I went on the hunt for custard creams whilst Georgia looked for some shortbread! There was also a huge supermarket in the mall and we ended up buying meatballs, cheese, pasta and Jamie Oliver's pasta sauce. It was strange because a lot of the food was from Waitrose and was being sold by a different supermarket for a slightly higher price. We also managed to find some cheap beer (rare in Singapore) to go with the meal that Georgia was now cooking for us for dinner. We had the biggest portion of spaghetti and meatballs that I've ever had with a mountain of cheese to go with it. We also watched "Horrible Bosses" in the outdoor cinema room and had the room to ourselves and lounged around on the beanbags.
Singapore at night

That evening, we went to Marina Bay where there was a laser show surrounded by the skyscrapers in the business district. They even had the Singapore flyer which was identical to the London Eye. It was a bit annoying as we missed the laser show but we walked around for a hour or so but by this point our legs were falling off from the amount of walking we had done in the past 2 days so we headed back and passed out in the dorm.

This morning we had yet another walk around the city that we had not not been to, including Arab Street which was different but nothing too amazing. Our hostel was in Little India and it was quite nice compared to the other dirty Little India districts that we had visited in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown and felt a bit more safer. The Indian men in all the countries that we have been to have an habit of staring, especially at Georgia and haven't got a care in the world that they are doing it!

That's it, we are heading to the airport and running out of time, we don't want to miss out flight now....or do we? lol. I will write a final blog once we are home, and just for your information we have had 1600 views on our blog in the past 16 weeks so thank you for reading!

James and Georgia x

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Indonesia continued.....

We don't seem to make the best of starts when we arrive to somewhere new..........

We took a boat from Bali to the adjacent island of Lombok which is around a hour and half away by speedboat. the boat first stopped at the Gill Islands before reaching Lombok and it looked amazing and we were gutted we wasn't getting off here. It had the kind of beaches that you would find on a poster or canvas and had no roads and just a few donkeys. We should have really got off but we bought the ticket to Lombok and we had a flight a few days later from Lombok so we didn't get off. We arrived on the island, but the boat stopped in the middle of nowhere, in a tiny village, a million miles from anywhere. We got off the boat and looked for a bus or taxi to where the majority of the hotels in Senggigi, but were informed by a few poeple that there was no taxis or buses which seemed a bit suspicious. Two men, no older than us approached us and said they will take us to the main town which was 5 miles away for a stupid amount of money. When we refused ,we walked up to the main road to look for a taxi and a couple of them passed whilst we were on the roadside. These two locals were making sure we wasn't getting in a taxi as they were trying to con us. We were basically stuck in the same place for half hour not moving, but then the two boys finally stopped trying to rip us off and offered us a reasonable price. At this point we didn't trust them one bit so we decided we wasn't getting in a car with them no matter what especially after they had caused us so much hassle. A taxi driver finally stopped and offered to take us but on leaving he had to give the two men money to shut them up, he told us they were bad people and they do this to everyone getting off the boat at this isolated pier. The taxi driver was nice and took us to a cheap place for the night as we had a villa booked for 2 nights the day after. Another stressful beginning to a new island.

The villa we had to ourselves for a barmy £24
The place we stayed in for a night was probably the worse place we have stayed in our travels but it was only 7 pound for the night including breakfast. We knew we had a shared villa the day after that we booked online for a barmy 24 pound the night after but one night was one too many. The room was terrible, toilet roll was not included and had to pay for, no flush, ants everywhere....it was bad! I didn't want to stay in the room for too long so I went for a walk and left Georgia in the room. I thought I would try and find the villa to try and cheer me up and I thought that I found it. It turned out to be someone's house on top of a hill overlooking the valley. I had a nice chat with the owner for a while and thought I would head back because Georgia would have been a nervous wreck being away from me for a whole hour and probably making up a million scenarios of how I could have been run over, kidnapped, got lost etc....

She preferred doing this to trekking, it was hard to disagree
We made it through the night and we arranged for the owner of the villa to pick us up from the poor excuse of a room which turned out to be a 5 minute drive away. The villa was beautiful and our room even had it's own kitchen. The villa consisted of 3 rooms but we were the only one staying there so we had the villa to ourselves for 2 nights! We spent our 2 days mainly around the pool after finding out that the only excursions in Lombok was a 3 day trek to the top of the volcano.
I didn't mind trekking but Georgia didn't agree with me lol...to be fair I didn't mind, we was staying in the nicest place since when we was staying with my Mum and Dad a month ago. The owner was American and his wife was Indonesian and they were nice enough and offered to take us to the bus stop which was 5 minutes away to catch our flight from the Airport. Before our flight in the evening we had a nice lunch on the beach when the weather decided to take a turn for the worse. We ended up walking back to the villa in torrential rain as the roads turned to rivers and was only saved by the umbrella that the restaurant on the beach decided to give us after we said we had a flight to catch!

We made it to the bus, we were the only one on it to begin with which allowed us to sing along to the radio blaring out "All Rise" by Blue lol. The airport was not so good, our hour long flight was delayed by an almighty 4 hours due to operational and technical problems which we was annoying and worrying.
I do love a map lol
The airline had a history of crashes and the plane wasn't much bigger than my Citeron C2 with propellas. We were flying to Surabaya on the island of Java. When we landed we couldn't find our hotel for over a hour and by this time it was past midnight, our hotel turned out to be on an industrial estate which was guarded by an army of rats. It seemed like we was going from one extreme to another regarding our hotels.

The next day in Surabaya we visited a cigarette factory which doesn't sound thrilling but there's not much else to do there apparently to Tripadvisor. It was actually quite an experience as we saw the factory where Indonesian's biggest brand of cigarettes were made. Each cigarette was individually hand-rolled and packed by an army of about 300 women. It was a bit like the factory out of Willy Wonka in fast-motion. Each cigarette was rolled in a second, and a pack of 20 being packaged up in about 2 seconds, I am not exaggerating by the way. I think Georgia has put pictures up on Facebook so take a look, because I can't really begin to describe it and the speed in which they was working! Oh and by the way, a pack of 20 cigarettes in a shop costs a pound! That was it for Surabaya apart from the fact that our hotel was next to a shopping mall and we had a sneaky Pizza Hut and went in the games arcade.
Each individual cigarette was hand-rolled in a second!
Our final stop was Yogyakarta which was a 5 hour train journey way. We didn't manage to get seats together which was annoying and I ended up sitting next to a doctor who seemed adamant on me posing for photos on his blackberry and adding me on Twitter! I didn't let him have my Facebook, he isn't that lucky! We checked into our guest house which was nice with a good set of owners and staff. We were also located on a touristy strip, which is just what we needed, as we needed a laundrette, an internet cafe, travel agents and some decent restaurants. The main tours to do in and around the town was to visit ancient Hindu temples and seemed quite interesting. When we found out that the entrance fee was 2 pound for locals and 15 pound for foreigners we were a bit put off, especially after visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia which was a Wonder of the World and is probably impossible to beat regarding ancient temples so we decided to look for something else to do.

Volcano, last erupted 2010 killing nearly 400 people! 
About 20 miles away from the town is an active volcano, and after missing out on trekking and visiting the volcano on Lombok, it was something that I wanted to see and do. It didn't involve trekking which suited Georgia so we headed to the base of the volcano on a buses that took 2 and half hours to get there! We arrived in the afternoon and found out that the "lava tour" costed around 20 pound per jeep and lasted around 90 minutes, so me using my superb initiative decided to find someone that was willing to share the jeep and split the cost and we ended up doing the tour with two locals. You may think why are locals going on the tour? Let me explain.....

Burnt out house from the lava
Me being cool obviously
The volcano last erupted in November 2010 and the lava tours started running last year so it was a fairly new tour to show what the most recent and largest eruption did. The eruption wiped out villages, melted cars and houses and killed around 300 people as it erupted in the middle of the night and there was no warnings as people slept. The tour was done using Jeeps from WW1 to navigate the dried lava and the ash that the eruption left behind. We visited a woman's house that was destroyed which she has now turned into a museum which shows what the lava done to all her belongings which was quite shocking! We were also lucky as it was a clear day and had a good view of the volcano as it is usually hidden behind the clouds. The guide didn't speak English but luckily enough the two locals that we were sharing the Jeep with translated and explained what the guide was saying. The wildlife was already growing back through the ash but the once flowing rivers were completely dry due to the lava drying up the rivers to the present day. We got back to the base village at around 5pm to discover the last bus was at 3pm which was awkward! The two men we shared the Jeep with was part of a big family and they could see we was in a bit of trouble and offered to take us back to our hotel as their house was only round the corner to our guest house which was kind of them! The car journey home involved listening to Elvis and UB40 and only took 40 minutes compared to the 2 and half hours it took on the bus on the way.

Yogyakarta also has a couple of things to do including a famous shopping street where we managed to get a few gifts as we only have a few nights before we head home. It is now 11 o clock at night and our flight to Singapore is at 7am so I better get some sleep! Goodnight

Friday, 3 May 2013

Bali, Indonesia

Our flight left Kuala Lumpur in a thunderstorm but managed to make it to Bali in Indonesia around 3 hours later at around 8pm. It was a start to a stressful few hours, even before we managed to leave the airport! We had to pay 25USD for an Indonesian visa each but had no dollars or local money, but we were allowed to use our visa cards! For some strange reason, all our bank cards were refusing to let us pay. A hour passed and I managed to get my credit card working but by that time our luggage was no longer on the luggage conveyor  belt and had a mini-panic until we found our bags at the airline's office. When we left the terminal, we had changed up a small amount of Malaysian money to Indonesian Ruppiah and was bombarded by a load of taxi drivers which was pretty much standard in Asia. The main resort was 5 mins away from the airport but taxi drivers were demanding 22 pound which seemed a little expensive considering petrol only costs 30p a litre. We managed to find the taxi counter within the airport and they charged us 3.50, that's more like it!
It was now 9.30pm and the next part of our ordeal was finding a room in the resort which was especially hard considering the taxi driver didn't drop us off in the centre of the resort. We managed to find a hotel a hour later with our clothes dripping of sweat and we was now hungry by this point as we didn't check into the room until after 10. It was not a good start to Bali.....

Coming to the UK soon.....
Whilst Georgia got her standard 12 hours sleep in, I went out at 8am the next morning in search of a laundry and a hotel with a swimming pool and somewhere that was more within our budget. Bali consists of narrow streets with shops selling fake rubbish, restaurants, bars and hotels. I come across a nice hotel owner which had rooms for 14 pound but with no air-conditioning and a pool so I took it. After being out for a hour and half I imagined Georgia starting to get worried but got back to the room to find her still snoring away. We had some lunch and moved hotels....

Bali was a bit like Koh Samui in Thailand, it was more aimed at people going on holiday rather than backpacking but with an Australian twist. It seemed as if that nearly everybody staying in the resort, Kuta, was an Australian on holiday with their mates or family. It was almost an Indonesian version of Majorca or Tenerife and with Aussies and not Brits abroad lol. It was almost strange seeing groups of girls and boys on holiday by the beach with lots of bars and a couple of huge super-clubs  Talking of clubs, only once we were there it only occurred to me that the Bali bombings were not that long ago and they have a memorial site where the nightclub that got bombed in 2002 used to be. It was in the centre of town and had the names of the 200 people or so that died that night. It was quite a scary thought as we had a drink in the club next door for a couple of nights.
Georgia at a foam party

Originally we were going to explore whole island of Bali but stayed in the same resort for 5 nights as we had a nice hotel, there was good food, nice beach and a few good places for a drink. We knew that the other parts of Indonesia wasn't so touristy so we put our exploring on hold for a bit and pretended we was on holiday for a few nights. And yes there is a difference between holiday and travelling before you ask!

Skinny surfer dude
One day we headed to the beach instead of lounging around the swimming pool and I noticed that there was hundreds of people surfing! It wasn't much of a surprise considering nearly everyone in our hotel owned a surfboard plus 90% of the people on the beach were Australian so there was a lot of surfer "dudes" and a lot of Aussie birds lol. The waves were huge and the current was stronger than any other sea that I had been but I thought I would have been stupid to miss out on the opportunity of having a surfing lesson. I paid a local 10 pound and he taught me for a hour or so and I think I picked it up quite quickly but every time I got back onto the surfboard I looked like a seal jumping on and managed to get all friction burns over my belly, sorry six-pack. It was a good experience and was glad I did it but couldn't manage to persuade Georgia to do it!

Skin-head lol
I also had a mid-travelling crisis by asking to having a skin-head in the hairdressers as I was always hot and my cows lick was annoying me so in the heat of the moment (literally) I said shave it lol. My hair is still in the process of recovering and hopefully it should be OK by this time next week as I will be home.

During the evenings we ate at all types of restaurant, Indonesian, Mexican, Western, Italian and went out for a drink a couple of the nights aswell. The main nightclub was literally giving away free drinks between 9-10pm for men and from 9-11pm for girls which seemed like to much of a good opportunity to miss. The superclub must of had about 6 rooms over 4 floors and we had a good night out. We often looked like tramps compared to the Aussies at they had nice holiday clothes whilst we felt like we had worn-out day clothes but after a few drinks we didn't care! Georgia seemed to notice that all the Australian men were huge, I don't mean fat, more like Mr Muscle! To be fair it was hard to disagree but to be fair all they seem to do is surf and swim all day, back in England the nearest I get to that is stretching for a shot whilst playing snooker lol.

I'm not too sure what else we did in Bali to be fair, we did no excursions and just relaxed and had a good few days off from travelling and not worrying about catching the next bus and booking the next excursion.