Just thought I'd add a couple of bits about the pictures below and our final evening and morning in Bali, before moving onto The Layover.
First, when Zoe and I first arrived in Bali we saw these stands of Absolut vodka on the street. Except it looked like it had been diluted with various amounts of wee! I am pleased to report that don't worry, it's petrol. However why Absolut vodka bottles are the petrol bottles of choice, I do not know. Should have asked....
Second, on the last evening we treated ourselves to a Posh Night Out (although still only about £25 each for a meal). Someone had recommended Potato Head, so out we went. It's a restaurant/bar, and you drive/get driven by the taxi driver down a long entrance-road, staff members check the boot of the car, you rock up at a modern glass-shortscraper type building, BUT made with blue and green window shutters. And when you enter (down another corridor), you're confronted with: WHAM! (Club Tropicana.) It's great! I mean it's not quite that cheesy, but I just kept expecting George and the other one to suddenly appear in Relax t-shirts, shorts, orange tans, and start singing. At this restaurant I had two new experiences: first, I had a drink recommended to me by the waiter. A recommendation, which I followed! And the other thing was that, when I received it, it was DELICIOUS!! I had a Kookaburra. Mainly because it was recommended, and also because it had the name (and the link to the song - Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree), and also because it was #33, which is a good number. And yes, normally with alcoholic beverages they're quite nice, but there's still a feeling of drinking something somewhat for a purpose other than taste. But this was exceptional: yum.
So then the next morning we packed and killed time (I wandered around a few side-streets), and I said goodbye to Jackie at the bar about 3 times because I kept passing back by, killing a little bit more time. The third time he was a bit worried I'd miss my flight!
First, when Zoe and I first arrived in Bali we saw these stands of Absolut vodka on the street. Except it looked like it had been diluted with various amounts of wee! I am pleased to report that don't worry, it's petrol. However why Absolut vodka bottles are the petrol bottles of choice, I do not know. Should have asked....
Second, on the last evening we treated ourselves to a Posh Night Out (although still only about £25 each for a meal). Someone had recommended Potato Head, so out we went. It's a restaurant/bar, and you drive/get driven by the taxi driver down a long entrance-road, staff members check the boot of the car, you rock up at a modern glass-shortscraper type building, BUT made with blue and green window shutters. And when you enter (down another corridor), you're confronted with: WHAM! (Club Tropicana.) It's great! I mean it's not quite that cheesy, but I just kept expecting George and the other one to suddenly appear in Relax t-shirts, shorts, orange tans, and start singing. At this restaurant I had two new experiences: first, I had a drink recommended to me by the waiter. A recommendation, which I followed! And the other thing was that, when I received it, it was DELICIOUS!! I had a Kookaburra. Mainly because it was recommended, and also because it had the name (and the link to the song - Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree), and also because it was #33, which is a good number. And yes, normally with alcoholic beverages they're quite nice, but there's still a feeling of drinking something somewhat for a purpose other than taste. But this was exceptional: yum.
So then the next morning we packed and killed time (I wandered around a few side-streets), and I said goodbye to Jackie at the bar about 3 times because I kept passing back by, killing a little bit more time. The third time he was a bit worried I'd miss my flight!
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