Last two days in Bali

 12/02/2012
  A similar day to yesterday and still not been arrested for being drunk in charge of a wheelchair. It’s a bit of a Benidorm scenario poolside except it isn’t the Germans snaffling the sun beds before dawn, it’s group of 3 French people. Between the three of them they seem to acquire five of the prime spots around the pool, but they are getting burnt to cinders, we have our Aussie tans!
 My perambulations with the legiron around Sanur were no speedier or less painful than yesterday ( I never felt a thing) but I know where the deepest potholes are and take them at a lesser speed. We just had to have a few beers at the Ducks Nutz as the beer there is so much colder, we suspect it’s Aussie owned or managed.
 The menu at the restaurant we used last night was quite comprehensive so we chose to go back again tonight. O K last nights steak was tough but that’s because of the poor quality cattle exported from Australia that finds its’ way onto your dinner plate and is very cheap. Anyway we had fish.
 Just a bit about Bali, it took us by surprise how over populated the island is.  When you consider that the U K (which is full) has a population of 8 people per square kilometre, Bali has 32 people/ sq/k. There are 3 to 4 million people living here and somewhere in the region of one and a half million motor bikes. Road safety is non existent, it’s bike eat bike, and the only vehicle I would contemplate driving here is an armoured personnel carrier! The Balinese are a very friendly race , always smiling, how they can do that when, for most of the day, they are just inches away from death beats me. It has been a very interesting experience.

  13/02/2012
 Came so close to a monumental cock up that could have cost us a shed load of money. We got our dates mixed up thinking we fly back to Oz tomorrow night, when we suddenly realised it is tomorrow, but just 10 minutes into it. We actually fly at 10 past midnight tonight! Could have turned up 24 hours late.
 No problem, we paid our bill, ( we are sure they made a mistake 6 nights B & B, 4 dinners, 3 lunches and God knows how much beer)  under £200 ish --  it is cheap here. Indy arrived so we legged it a bit quick up into the hills for the day.
 Out of the traffic and  into the mountains where they grow rice it’s a whole new world, very peaceful and very beautiful, mind you the roads are still crap making life difficult as we can’t explore.  The locals in one village had planted a palm tree in a pothole in the middle of the road!
 We had stopped to take photos of the rice field down the valley and bought a very sweet dish of banana, coconut rice and other sugary stuff from a lady wandering along selling from a tray she balanced on her head.  It was served on a homemade paper plate and we ate it with a banana leaf stem. Very sweet and sticky and delicious.
 We went to see a 14th  Century Royal Hindu Temple with it’s fabulous stone and wood carvings, but again we weren’t able to get around easily due to too many steps and poor quality walkways. After a late lunch of crispy duck at a roadside Warung, Indy took us to the Airport where we said our goodbyes. Indy has been a star, nothing has  been too much trouble so we will be staying in touch with him with a view to meeting him again sometime.  After a fairly easy transit through immigration we flew at 12.10 am on the right  day.