We both woke up at 6.30am, having had a decent nights sleep and ready for a day of travelling. My phones internet wasn’t working any more, no body knew why and we didn’t care enough to get a new sim card or find out. I linked up to Edds hotspot to check my messages and then got up, needing to pack the last bits and get ready. We were ready at 7.40am and sat at the ‘reception’ area for our taxi, chatting to the owner of our guest house for...

We decided to get up early today. Shock, horror. Edd wanted to go surfing, so we had to be up and breakfasted before midday, at least, for it to be worthwhile. We decided to eat at the cheap place we'd found and have an early lunch. (No, it was not brunch, there was no champagne involved and vegetable noodles are not breakfast). The food was good, and cheap - 15 000 Rupiah kind of cheap (70p).We ate up and got on the road, we'd packed our lifetime supply of biscu...

We decided to make today a lazy day. Or more like, I decided, Edd didn’t have much choice. We got out of bed a little after 11am and went in search of lunch, after dropped our washing off with the guest house owner. We went back to the cheap place we’d found and ate there, with a couple of other westerners who had rocked up to before the mad rush. It was a beautiful day and one that definitely needed to be spent by a body of water; the swimming pool ...

It was another late start; we were trying our hardest to take advantage of the last few mornings of this particular luxury. How it would be missed. We decided to go the opposite way on the map, up to the spot marked ‘1.’ Our guest house owner had warned us against going down a road to the left of the main one, apparently thats where all the criminals were, according to him. Noted. We were going to have to put more petrol in at some point during the ...

I woke up with bad stomach pains and I was still really tired, even though I'd slept all night (flickering light or not). Edd had woken up at 3am as the mosque close to us was singing/chanting/reading the Qur'an. We weren't sure why it was being read at 3am, as it hadn't been done the past 2 nights; we were going to have to investigate.Edd put on a shirt that desperately needed a wash, but he was going for a hair cut, so he didn't want to wear something clean and...