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Hello to everyone and goodbye to Bali...
This is the last time we will send you a message from the other side of the world.
Sadly, we leave Bali tomorrow. Tried to extend our visas, but no go, they are fed up with us....so after 30 days in this lovely country and 225 days on the road we are coming home and not stopping at Singapore, as the weather is pretty bad there with all the tropical rain they are getting...
We have had a really good time here, a proper holiday, stayed in nice hotels and slept in a real bed - 7ft wide with most imporatantly, an dajoining bathroom( at campsite prices), eaten in lovely resturants for takeway prices, made many friends, locals and international and of course, done a bit of shopping...
The weather here has been very nice and is getting very hot now, so we'll be glad to get back to the UK (not....) we will try and bring the sunshine home with us as we have been watching the weather...
Since our last blog, we have been out and about, travelling around Bali with our own driver, Gede, who introduced us to some of his family, which was lovely. His father had 4 wives, so he has many many relatives..You do feel humble though, these people have nothing except each other, you kind of feel voyeuristic, but they welcome you as one their own and they are always laughing. We visited many temples too and saw lovely real Balinese countryside. The highlight of our trip was seeing the dolphins at Lovina at sunrise in a traditional Balinese boat. A 5.30 am start was not a problem for the chance to see 300 hundred or more dolphins in action, just inches away from the boat. They are always difficult to photgraph, but we managed to get some from the 100 photos we took....Just a wonderful wonderful experience. The guy who took us out does it at least 3 times a week and says he never gets fed up of seeing them.
Gary has alaso been on a couple more diving trips - to Tulamben in East Bali, diving on the USS Libertym, a boat which sank in the 40's, where he saw loads of fish barracuda and turtles etc. and a field of water snakes... hmmmm...He also dived on a couple of islands off of Bali which were also great. We stayed the night on Nusa Lembongan, a small island 5 miles off of Bali where he did 3 drift dives along some fantastically colourful deepwater coral reefs, seeing too many fish too name!
Its is impossible to believe we have come to the end of our trip...after seeing so many places, meeting so many people and doing many different things. We wish it could go on forever, but all good things must come to an end ..so for now we' re hanging up our rucksacks, but look about world, and as Arnie says I'll be back.
Thanks for your company and all your lovely messages. We hope it has been of interest and entertainment . We have certainly enjoyed the walk... or rideabout as it turned out...
Thanks to all the lovely people we met on the way, you know who you are, particularly Dawn and the Darling Family in California: The Jacksons in New Zealand: our lovely kiwi cousins Bob and Karen and our lovely relatives, the Clinck family in Adelaide and Karen, Kevin and family in Adelaide, Ron and Denise, Ali, Mark, Jazzy and Jackson from Brisbane and any other of the hundreds of people we met who may be looking in ....
We'll send a message from our new home in Cyprus. sometime soon....
Well we're now off to dinner for our last Nasi Goreng (famous scrummy Balinese rice dish) on the beach....
Lots of love Dee and Gary
PS...
Happy Wedding Day Katie and Matt
Special thoughts for Candice in Hawaii, wish we were there for you Dawn, miss you XXXX
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