10th December – Lazy day by pool. Rose quite early. Swam etc. Took brave approach to sun for most of day – afternoon went down to shopping centre and walked back through Nusa Dua market – bought several gifts & goodies for ourselves – took some more sun / swam and then prepared to go out for our Babi Guleng which was wonderful but far too much for two – we ended up sharing our meal with other diners and the restaurant staff. Also tasted turtle which was good.
Well, we had been warned a couple of nights before that babi guling, which is a whole suckling pig, was a feast for several people, not just two people. Still, it was fun sharing it with other eager diners and the restaurant staff. I don’t in truth remember the turtle. Janie probably thought it tasted like chicken and I probably didn’t. I suspect that it isn’t the done thing to eat it any more, if indeed it was still the done thing in 1993.
11th December – Lazy day by pool – late start again. Took much sun and swimming. Had some lunch by pool & took canoes out in afternoon. Janie did most of the packing & then we went to seafood restaurant in evening for lobster/prawns. Fairly early night. (I finished Wilderness of Mirrors 10th & started London Fields 11th).
I don’t think the canoeing was a great success, but nor was it a disaster in those tranquil waters.
The nice musician in the restaurant gave me a chance to try his traditional Balinese bamboo instrument, known as rindik.
12 December – I rose early – getting deep into London Fields – we went to Galleria to sort out boarding passes etc. – then went down the pool for final few hours of sunning, swimming, barbecue lunch & last of the amazing sol ice cream milkshakes…
…Left for home 4:00 pm and spent several irritating hours delayed at Jakarta
OMG that flight home with Garuda Indonesia is another story – which I’ll write up at some point. Let’s leave this story with me and Janie by the pool and on the beach.
All the photos we took on those three days – by which I mean all 22 photos – can be seen in raw form in the Flickr album below:
