We decided to rent some bikes from the hostel today so that we could cycle round the whole island. The island was not very big, it would probably take 45 minutes to cycle round once non stop. The main strip is really busy but as you cycle round it gets much quieter and there was lots of gorgeous little restaurants and hotels. They looked very exclusive and away from all the main strip party havoc. We stopped off at a hotel beach restaurant called Karma Kayak to h...

We had a 6am start, packed up and went for the hotel breakfast that they specially prepared for us as we were leaving before breakfast started. The taxi took nearly 2 hours to get us to Padang Bai harbour. There were loads of people going over. We sat on top of the boat all the way over with the sun beaming down and wind in our hair! The boat staff asked to use my phone for music on the boat. I sat with it the whole time and acted as DJ... Pressure! It took an ho...

Waking up at 1am was a killer but I knew it would be worth it. We drove in the taxi for 2 hours before reaching a little hut in the middle of a Balinese coffee plantation. We were cooked chocolate and banana pancakes and black tea. Then we drove on a bit further to reach the bottom of the volcano. We were shown to our tour guide then we set off in the pitch black to try reach the top before sunrise. The volcano was called Bantur and is still active. The last erup...

Breakfast was included in our stay at the hotel, right on the beach front as well. I felt a bit home sick today with it being two years ago yesterday my little nanny died. I was desperate to speak to mum. I text mum just to ask to speak at some point maybe when she got up. With that a had a FaceTime call from her and when I answered it she was hanging out her bedroom window at 2 am desperately trying to get reception. I told her I would call her back another time...

I woke up at 03.30 am and was convinced it was time to get up! I even looked at my phone to see that was the time, but no...the phone was wrong! It wasn't until I saw complete darkness outside that I thought I might try catch a few more hours in bed! When it eventually was time to get up, we got ready, packed all our rucksacks up and headed for breakfast at the hotel restaurant. The girls had rice...still not ready for that! We then took all our bags to a holding...