Feel the burn.

So it’s been a fairly quiet week in Bali in the end. It was definitely lucky we were in such a nice hotel as after the lobsterfication incident we did have to spend the next few days hiding in the room recouperating. Many bottles of moisturiser later we are on the way to recovery. We have just arrived at the hotel we stay in tonight near the airport (or so we thought, turns out it’s about the same distance away as where we were so it was a completely pointless move – never mind, it seems nice but calling themselves an airport hotel is a bit of a lie. It turns out that ‘Denpasar airport’ is about as accurate as Ryanair’s description of Vienna airport which is actually in Bratislava – a whole other country). We thought we’d just update you quickly with some of the funnier moments of the week, since apart from a trip to the shopping centre, a trip to the beach and a few more trips to our swimming pool, we haven’t been up to much due to the burns.


 Firstly, silly shop names we’ve spotted include 'Wank Internet', 'The Athlete’s Foot', 'Jerk Wardrobe', 'Semen Triple', 'Seafood Cak' and 'Sinus Refill Centre'. Needless to say we didn’t feel the urge to visit any of them.


We’ve also had some funny food incidents including potato skins, which ironically enough had no skin anywhere in or on them, potato wedges which were shaped like cubes, prawn spring rolls which were actually just crispy breaded whole prawns and fried noodles which turned out to be noodle soup.


The funniest moment of the week was Cat’s phone call this morning as we were about to check out of the hotel.


“Is that Miss Evison?”


“No, I’ll just get her hold on” – “Hello?”


“Miss Evison, it’s Mr Michael for you”


“Is that first name or second name Michael?”


“Oh yes”


“Er, is Michael the first name or second name”


“Oh yes, I’ll connect you”


“Oh, ok, but will it cost me anything?”


“Ok”


“No, will it cost me anything? Do I need to pay you?”


“Oh yes, I see”


“No, do I need to pay? Do I need to give you money?”


“No it’s free, it’s free”


“Oh ok then”


“Oh yes, I see, I’ll connect you”


... Cat waits, the phone goes dead, she gets bored and hangs up, the phone rings again...


“Is that the room for Mr & Mrs Evison?”


“No, it’s Miss Evison”


“Oh, you’re not here with your partner Madam?”


“Erm, no”


“Ok then”... put’s phone down....


I guess that makes me the man of this relationship then...
 

 
Unfortunately they hadn't called us earlier in the week to offer us the honeymoon suite as we had hoped, but despite the crushing disappointment of this, we still managed to enjoy ourselves. 
 
Bali was beautiful, and I would love to go back, stocked with higher factor suncream.  I think, much as I loved it, we had a very sanitised version, and were quite isolated.  We couldn't even really walk to the shops, because the resort was so massive.  It suited us perfectly though, given we couldn't really go anywhere, and they had good TV - our favourite Asian channel, Star Movies, kept us supplied with more B-rate films than we could ever want, and we swam (mostly at night), and slept, watched TV and ate for a week, so we're nicely recharged.  We toyed with the idea of taking a tour of the island, but in the end decided it was a bit expensive, so took our time there for what we'd intended it - a relaxing beach holiday. 

 
Looking forward to getting back on the tourist trail in Singapore, and seeing some exciting things...