Our first full day in Sanur, and we decided to head to the other end of the beach from where we were yesterday. On the way, we stopped at a hotel restaurant for breakfast - quite expensive for toast and muesli but they had free wifi so we checked our emails and facebook! Down at the beach we got a couple of loungers for 40,000rp and settled down for a day in the sun. From where we were, we had a good view of the boats in the bay, which went in and out all day. ...

Today we'd booked online for a local bus to take us to the beach resort of Sanur, and paid an extra pound or so to be picked up from our homestay to take us to the bus stop. The whole trip cost about £7 and took about an hour. On the way, we passed a lot of the rice fields surrounding Ubud, and lots of shops selling stone sculptures - we wonder how many they sell as tourists surely can't carry them home in their suitcases! When we arrived in Sanur we haggled wi...

Our last day in Ubud L It's been a fantastic place to start our South-East Asia aventure, and we'll both miss it even though we've only been here a few days! We planned to have an even cheaper day today, so we had a lie in and didn't make it to breakfast until about 10:30! Not that it bothered our hosts, who sprang into action as soon as we appeared. Today is a special day for the Balinese - they celebrate Kuningan, a ceremony that takes place at temples all ove...

Today, we had booked ourselves onto a Balinese cooking class so were up early for breakfast before meeting for the class at 9am. We were paying 200,000 each for the class which is a bit expensive for Bali but we'd seen classes advertised for even more. Over breakfast we debated about not going or only me going because of the cost, but in the end decided to go for it as we've been enjoying the food here so much and it would be good to learn how to cook it. When w...

After a good night's sleep in our comfortable room, we went to find our free breakfast at the homestay. We wandered downstairs to where we thought the dining area was (a few tables and chairs at the front of the compound) and sat down. Soon we were asked whether we wanted tea or coffee - we were in the right place! The coffee came strong and black and was followed by a delicious breakfast of egg on toast, as well as fruit salad (we didn't recognise one of the fru...