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...

And now for something completely different...Asia! I'll skip the bit about geting to the airport as there's so much to say about arriving in Bali. A quick rundown is - up early-bye bye Tosh-shuttle to airport-coffee-jetstar plane (with free meal and drink this time)-landed in Bali! As the plane was nearing Bali we could see the beautiful island out of the window, with lots of fishing boats scattered in the water (Dave thought they were floating houses, but they...