Doing nothing #2

Big decision of the day was booking the trip to the Gili Islands, a reputedly idyllic archipelago up the coast. We opted for a trip run by Harris - Annelise trusted his seaman ship because he claimed "I'm a surfer, I know the ocean".

We installed ourselves at the Pool Villas loungers. Annelise wanted to sit on a lounger right by the sand and made me lie there by myself for 10 minutes to test whether the pestering from the Hawkers was intolerable….It wasn't too bad…..

Harris procured me a ropey old surfboard and I went for a paddle in the mush breaking just out to sea.Gave up and retired to the lounger where A-lo had ordered some lunch…Fortified with a black rice pudding lay back and listened to the waves and the hypnotic beat coming from a speaker above my head. Annelise was asleep. Started reading my epic sci-fi novel and woke up an hour later. Annelise still asleep.

We headed down to Albertos to catch the sunset from a different angle. Amazing- a restaurant with - gulp - people in it and some - gulp - atmosphere. Sky was quite cloudy and resulted in a red sky with a nuclear explosion effect. This was the evening we broke and ordered western food - our pizza and pasta was devoured with hardly a word…..Albertos laid on transport for guests - basically a pick-up with a bench in the middle, no tailgate etc.