Day 72 - Gili MenoThe morning after for all the locals and it looks like the celebrations took there toll. The restauraunt only has 2 people working in it (1 taking orders and serving the other the chef) and the entire island have again turned up for food much the same carnage as last night people waiting for about 30mins to order and another 45 to get food. All the westerners get very stressed and don't understand that people from places like this don't rush and...

Day 71 - Gili MenoWell it turns out the barman from Lombok is a better barman than a weatherman, we are awoken by the sound of torrential rain!I jump out of bed and open the door and it looks just like Manchester Lashings of rain and lots of wind, we have our 1st tropical storm.Not to let this put a dampner on things we head to the cafe by the sea as theres a big wooden cover over it and get some brekky and a couple of strong Lombok coffees.Everybody around the ...

Day 70 - Gili MenoA better nights sleep last night so we're straight out of bed and heading for breakfast, it's a bit hotter today (The weather is so warm here!) Rhona decides she wants to stay out of the sun today so i head to the beach for a couple hours and leave her with her to chill for a while. Its so hot people are running across the beach as the sand is scorching. Soon as i throw my stuff down i jump in the sea (such a refreshing feeling!) Then go to toas...

Day 69 - Gili MenoWe awake at a more reasonable hour today and decide as it's lovely and warm we'll take a trip around the island. Meno is the smallest of the 3 islands and it should take about an hour to walk around the entire outside of it. Neither of us have ever walked around an entire island before so its sommat new to do. Temperature is about 31 today not much breeze no cloud just lots of sun.As we leave the "strip" of the island it's not long be...

Day 68 - Gili Trawangan/Gili Meno7:30AM alarm goes off, it's so hard waking up to an alarm when you're used to getting up when you feel like it! We get all cleaned and packed before ordering the brekky. Having sampled an egg Jaffle yesterday i went for a banana and honey 1 and it was good!We say our goodbyes and check out and head straight for the harbour to get on the island hopper boat which is the public "bus" that travels between the 3 Gilis twice ...