MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! Season's greetings from Bali. We hope Santa was good to you, we know that you probably have been good this year so we hope the gifts were plentiful and that you ate until the button on your trousers popped off. Before we spent our Christmas in Bali, we had spent a couple of fruitless days in Senggigi on the island of Lombok. It had sounded really promising after what we had read about the place but we discovered that there wasn't too mu...

After a three hour flight we touched down on the Indonesian island of Bali around 7pm. Great expectations were afoot and we couldn't wait to start getting out and about and exploring the place. First things first though we had to pay for our visa's on arrival and collect our baggage. Our bags were already off the collection belt and on the floor surrounded by two men in uniforms when we arrived. We didn't know what was going on as one of the men asked "Are t...