Tuesday 21st November Wow! What a day! Forgive me if my spelling becomes a bit sloppy during this update but it's late here and it's been a really long day! Kerry and I were up at 5:30 this morning, got dressed in our swim wear and made our way to the gate at the back of the hotel that leads down to the beach where our tour guide for the morning was waiting for us with his little wooden boat. We had decided to spend an extra night in Lovina as we wanted to take ...

Saturday 18th November Hello everyone back there in England! Not much to tell you all about for this entry as have been taking it easy for the last couple of days. Got a shuttle bus back up to Lovina a few days ago as we prefer it here in the North of the Island, the people are so friendly and the pace of life much slower than the commercialised South. The shuttle bus journey was quite an experience up through the mountains and volcanos again passing through som...

Tuesday 13th Nov Today has been pleasant and hot, as usual. Lovely lovely. Better than the wind and cold you are having, we hear! We have been conned a couple of times today! Firstly we decided that it would be nice to leave North Bali, although we loved it to bits, and travel to the South East, to a resort called Sanur, one of the mpst popular places to stay in Bali. In order to save money we encorporated the trip down (3 hours) with a tour of one of the volc...

Day 3 - 10th November Man, the internet connection out here is slow! We should feel lucky we have broadband at home. Turned the air conditioning off at 2 am this morning as it was so noisy; what a STUPID mistake that was! Temperature soon zipped up to 135 degrees and it´s only 5:45 am! O, so it wasn't that high but it felt like it! Up early today as we´re off on a tour to the North of the island. We are travelling with three other girls today, 2 German sister...

Hello there! Apologies to you all for taking so long to update the first journal entry but as you can imagine things have been pretty busy the last couple of days! To be honest i'm writing all this on the 12th of November as this is the first internet cafe' we have found since touching down in Denpasar on the 7t so I will try to update you all on the events of the last three days... 7/11/06 Woke up feeling very excited, with only half our bags packed. ...