Day 1 in Bali

Our whistle stop tour continues. After a smooth ride with AirAsia (where every Ryanair or easyjet flight attendant should do an internship for customer care !) we arrived on the Island of the Gods, where true to style we ran into a religious procession. Just like that. Just as they say in the travel guides.

Mr Avis gave us his worst (or best ?) car ever. Its a Toyota Innova Minibus with 115000km on the teller, which sputters if you give a bit too much gas. Freaky.

Driving here is like factor 8 on the Richter scale in the daytime, going a close 9 at night. It is insane. But having driven in Thailand prepared me well for this experience. Just more mopeds and insanity. But by all means and accounts, get a car, as a car will get you far.


Our house is just as nice as shown on the promotional photos, plus it comes with Troy the watchdog and Zen, Max's buddy, the owners son. a lovely 11y old boy, who loves to hang with Max (and vice versa). Ever since the gastro Lourd's gone mental on hygiene though. Surprised the surfaces do not get cleaned with alcohol to disinfect them. Oh hang on we drink the alcohol ourselves.

Max learned how t ride the wakeboard today and was quite good at it. Water was surprisingly cold, when compared to Thailand actually. Nice island, nice water, nice food. More to be explored tomorrow.