Today I get a chance to write the blog as Nigester is in no fit state and has too much to deal with in terms of just making it through the day, so over to me…. Watching sport til 3.30am was not such a great idea.Nige woke with a humdinger of a hangover.I think I heard 'oh, my head' 7 times before I informed him that he has 3 lives left (ie could only say those words 3 more times).We headed out for breakfast at The Beach Café - such a great setting - and the...

Back to school this morning for diving refresher course. Annelise had finally plucked up the courage to do an intro scuba course only to be told at the centre that this won't be possible as she is asthmatic (you need a doctor's note).She left the centre and headed home to chill.In the meantime, I did a test to see how much I remembered and went through the theory with Edwin (Dutch, 38, civil engineer, but quit to become a diving instructor after his girlfriend ...

Exploring Gili T Needless to say, we didn't have the earliest start…..Tucked into a top notch banana pancake served up by the boys running our shacks. Probably best not to do a health and safety inspection of the cooking facilities….Dragged ourselves downtown to check out dive schools, mingle with backpackers in the internet café and comment on the searing heat. Booked in for some diving activities for following day and headed back to Warna, where th...

Clear sky, a light onshore breeze and no swell -perfect conditions for crossing the straits to Gili Trawangan. Sat with our bags on the roof of the boat with a charming diving instructor. Jumped off in ankle deep turquoise water onto coral debris and walked straight into a beach café that knocked up a dark liquid sludge that tasted of coffee. A-lo marched off into the heat to suss out accommodation and returned 30 minutes later looking seriously dehydrated. O...

Doing nothing #4 Up at the crack of 930. We taxied into the Senggigi CBD to book our transport to backpacker Gili, get cash (no ATM on the islands) and buy some second hand books (hard times eh?). Mission accomplished, on the transfers and ATM, A-lo went back to the second hand book kiosk and beat the owner down to 60K (2 quid each - I still say we were ripped off but desperate measures…) for 2 good condition recent novels. What a backpacker eh? It wa...