Hi everyone, We've had a lovely chilled out couple of days here in Ubud. Post-massaging yesterday we went out for a massive dinner of chicken/fish sate to a restaurant round the corner - we went there for lunch yesterday too and all had amazing seafood/curry-esque affairs (it's looking like it might be a new favourite venue!) Today we set out to explore a bit more of the town after yesterday ended up being a shopping-only affair! Despite this pledge, the fi...

Hey guys, Well when we left you we had just arrived in Kuta on Bali and got ourselves sorted with a hotel etc. We spent 3 nights there and have now moved up to Ubud further north on the island. We are now also a threesome with Gemma meeting up with us in Kuta! Kuta is only a small place that has expanded with mass tourism and now covers the adjoining towns of Legian and Seminyak. It is also nothing like the rest of Indonesia much more like a Greek island (thi...

Hey Guys, Well we have been super busy since we left you! We have travelled from Lake Toba back to Medan before catching a flight to Surabaya and have now travelled overland through Java and are currently in Bali. This means I've got quite a bit to talk about sorry (my blogs always seem to be the long ones). We left the lovely Lake Toba for Medan on Saturday morning. This should have been a simple journey of a boat over the lake then catching the public bus f...

Hi guys, We've had a very chilled out few days in Lake Toba, in Northern Sumatra.The trip here wasn't nearly as painful as we imagined seeing as it involved three buses and a boat, although one of the bus drivers did seem rather intent on getting as much rupiah as he could by packing in 31 people into a 16 seater bus for 3 hours.Luckily we were sat at the back so were spared having people and/or their live chickens on our laps! Lake Toba is the biggest in Sou...

Hi everyone, Since we are currently holed up in the hotel room unable to move, I thought I'd update on the last couple of days in Brastagi.From the guide book's description we'd imagined Brastagi to be a small village up high in the mountains. It is high up in the mountains yes, but small it is not!In some ways we were slightly disappointed when we turned up but it's the volcanoes surrounding the town we came to see, not the town itself!The journey from Bukit La...