Sitting towards the front of a speedboat on a choppy sea is a back jarring experience, to say the least! Along with an overwhelming smell of fuel I wouldn’t say I enjoyed the two hour journey across the Lombok Strait to Senggigi. Needless to say it wasn’t where I wanted to sit, but as Amelia and I were last to board, we didn’t have any choice on the crowded boat. Luckily, Amelia was able to sit towards the back and out in the open which was a li...

The speedboat over to Nusa Lembongan was pretty rough. Although it was only half an hour, the rough sea made it a journey I wanted to end from the get go! Chris is lucky and doesn't suffer from sea sickness, whereas I spent the entire journey focussing on land and with tiger balm on my temples and nose. One of the many benefits to tiger balm is that it helps prevent nausea. Glad to reach land we jumped off the boat at the best opportunity. Which involved timi...

Amelia and I returned back down south to continue with the next stage of our visa extension. Our drive from Amed was relatively straight forward apart from a very near miss – a completely oblivious local lady decided to pick something off the road without the slightest regard for traffic. My heart was in my mouth as we passed at what must’ve been literally millimetres from her head! Sanur is only half an hour down the road from the immigration office...

After much deliberation we decided that rather than hang around in Uluwatu for the next four days, we would head north-east to a 10km coastal area known as Amed. Having started the process of extending our visa, the second stage was to return in four days to pay and have our photo and finger prints taken. So we couldn’t travel too far afield, but knew that a few days in Amed would be apt, having heard it’s all about the beach life. Understanding that ...

We decided to head back to Uluwatu for a number of reasons. Our main reason being, to get our trusty little orange 'shoe', Faith, returned to the rental garage. But also, Beth's journey with us was sadly coming to an end, so Uluwatu, with its easy and cheap enough connections to the airport, was a great place to be for the last couple of days.With our thirty day VOA (visa on arrival) nearing its limit, we needed to head to the immigration office. Ther...