- Dont complain about British rail
If we thought that our experience on the Lombok ferry was bad, try being the only non-local people waiting (for 90 mins) in a train station, in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, in Java. Now we Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Sep 5, 2009
- Moving West...
Hello from Java!
First of all - if any of you heard about the earthquake in Java, don't worry we are fine and until we got emails and texts from relatives, didn't even know it had happened!!
So if we go back Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Sep 5, 2009
- Indonesia Part III (well, it's a big country..)
Hello there intripid followers....
so, where was I? Oh yes, about to climb another volcano, this time for a sunrise so started at 4am walking again down hill... it was pitch black and baltic. Aisling and I headed Posted by blondesock in Travelling with GiGi... | Sep 4, 2009
- Leaving Bali
Since the last update we stayed in Ubud. Ubud is a large, bustling town full of boutique shops selling art work, jewellery and clothes. There are lots of lovely places to eat and spas dotted all over the Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Sep 2, 2009
- Heading for the hills
It's been a quiet last few days here in Ubud, although we shopped up a storm yesterday and sent off a 12-kg package of souvenirs. There is quite a bit more I could say, but a car will be waiting Posted by The Rymans in Rymans At Large | Sep 1, 2009
- Ciaran’s Hat Trick of Dangerous Activities
First of all, thanks everyone for the comments you’ve been adding. For now, it’s all I can do to keep up the blog posts and upload the odd photo, so I haven’t been able to reply, but we do all Posted by The Rymans in Rymans At Large | Aug 28, 2009
- Sumatra
Stop number 2 on my travels through various pacific island chains. Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are shared Posted by Danieru in Travels | Aug 28, 2009
- On lost ducks, beautiful pizza and Balinese reflexology
A few more days in Ubud, and the kids are becoming expert traffic dodgers. We pretend it’s all a giant game of Frogger—leap through the motorbikes and other assorted vehicles roaring towards you in a ragged, unpredictable stream with as Posted by The Rymans in Rymans At Large | Aug 27, 2009
- Waterfalls
Thought I should update as G has been hogging the page!!
Today we went on a big tour of Lombok, we hired a private car & driver to take us to all the best spots. Our first stop was just Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Aug 27, 2009
- addendum
That's all for now.
(sorry Simon. hope this makes up for it.)
:o) Posted by Big.G in Our BIG trip | Aug 26, 2009
- Negotiations
Hiya!
We've left the Gili Islands after a few days there, including a snorkelling trip around the three of them. Very very nice place to stay, very relaxed, no problems, no hassling/beach sellers (well, very few) and the snorkelling was Posted by Big.G in Our BIG trip | Aug 25, 2009
- Jawa (java) indonesia
Jawa is a small island related to the greater sunda islands archipelago. Local population 124 million people. Java lies between sumatra and bali, and is north of christmas island. java is also the 13th largest island in the world. Java Posted by Danieru in Travels | Aug 25, 2009
- Motorbikes make my hair stand on end
After four leisurely days in Legian recovering from the taxing journey over from Canada, we moved on to Ubud, the so-called cultural heart of Bali, a few days ago. Twelve years ago, Ubud offered a respite from the nerve-jangling traffic Posted by The Rymans in Rymans At Large | Aug 25, 2009
- Lovely Lombok
Lombok is quite a small island just to the east of Bali which is dominated by a (currently erupting!) volcano called Gunung Rinjani. Getting here involved a tortuous 32 hour journey which involved 4 different buses, a taxi, 2 Posted by philnlisa in Phil & Lisa go to New Zealand (slowly!) | Aug 24, 2009
- Day 2 on a small island
We’ve spent our time here doing nothing. Lying on the beach, eating a bit of food, being nice to the local cat population (as Anita has said, 700 inhabitants, so there must be about 300 cats). We did Posted by Big.G in Our BIG trip | Aug 24, 2009
- Candi Dasa to Gili Trawangan
Candi Dasa was not a huge place (you can walk from one end to the other in about 10 minutes!) and after 3 days of finding many sea creatures we never even knew existed we felt it was time to Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Aug 24, 2009
- Bali, Hai!
Ah, Bali - a feast for the senses.
Heady aromas of incense and jasmine rice waft through the air. Friendly locals with ever-ready smiles and daily (sometimes hourly) offerings of fresh flowers to statues of gods. Rhythmic drumming and jaunty Posted by pendleton in The Pendleton Odyssey | Aug 21, 2009
- An inconvenient beginning
The evening before our early-morning departure for Asia, I collected my first souvenir: the parking stub for the medical clinic where I got my finger stitched up after slicing it open on a jagged piece of glass frozen to the Posted by The Rymans in Rymans At Large | Aug 23, 2009
- Jingle Jangle Jungle
Regular readers - after first congratulating themselves on having stuck with us this far - will recall that the last update was promised from Malaysia. That we have reached Cambodia, having covered Singapore and Thailand in between, probably tells you Posted by JessMike in A frog and a lobster en grandes vacances | Aug 23, 2009
- Indonesia Part II
Hello again and so soon you cry, have you finished the last one? This is going to be a whopper!! I missed out a few bits in the last one so might add them in here and there....
so, Posted by blondesock in Travelling with GiGi... | Aug 22, 2009
- Indonesia - Gili Islands
In the morning we rose early and walked off to the little harbour to catch the speedboat for the 1.5hr journey to the Gili Islands which are just off Lombok. We had bargained hard for our ticket the previous Posted by tomcoralie in Tom & Coralie's 2008 / 2009 travel diary | Aug 22, 2009
- And that's the way it is
With our vacation winding down, we're heading down to Nusa Dua, the resort area of Bali. Our plan is to lounge by the beach or pool and finish all of the books we had planned on reading over the last Posted by amvadamson in We're not 30 Yet! | Aug 20, 2009
- The Beach Part II
Back to the beach today to try our luck at surfing. We had booked lessons for $40/person, but thought we'd save for a nice dinner instead by simply renting boards at the beach for $10 total! Bryan went out Posted by amvadamson in We're not 30 Yet! | Aug 20, 2009
- The Beach Part I
While Bali may be a beach goers delight, Bryan and I have been doing so much sight seeing in Bali, we really haven't spent much time at the beach. So today we finally spent the better part of the day Posted by amvadamson in We're not 30 Yet! | Aug 20, 2009
- Moving on
Hiya!
We decided that we’d had enough of Legian and the madness that entails living in the busy touristy part of the island (too many Aussies and Germans – apologies to all our Aussie and German friends). So we decided Posted by bumblebum in Our BIG trip | Aug 19, 2009