Flew with A.A left 29th Dec. great flight and meal, heaps of drinks if you wanted, half full tho. V.O.A no prbs as we were the only flight in. Customs were a little confussed as they new we had over our quota, as my smart wife slung the additonal back with extra alcahol over her shoulder and they didn't notice!!
We originaly booked a direct flight home, when the tickets arrived we had a transit via Syd. to Melb with changing to domestic in Syd.
Not happy, back to Garuda or A.P. next trip. as this was the first time we have been back to Qantas in many trips.
24TH. stay at the Bounty Hotel, A lot of young people booked in but that didn't bother us seasoned Bountiets, also a couple in their 80's
who weren't bothered either.
S&S on the 3rd Jan, not a big turn out but was good to catch up with
Bob_Melb, LynneeD, jarydr, ozziejohn, callkthulu, smudgeUK and Kerry from Indo National Rest. I left at six o'clock so may have missed a few others.
N.Y.E. Dinner at the hotel and then on to see the new year in at Kori Restaurant where we meet up with Lauren (Bouncing_tigger) and her husband Alex. We had the entire restaurant on the dance floor at the stroke of midnight including all the staff. Lauren it was a pleasure to meet up with you, you are the bubbliest person I have ever meet!
Tailor; Janako in Julan Poppies 2, I had two suites with two addititional suite pants made up for AUD $120.00 very happy with the service and quality.
D.V.D's from Elu in Julan Benisari 10,000 each, buy 100 get 50 free Name of the shop was MALAU I think!!
Went on a H.H.H run/walk with the Saturday Hash club up at GiangGa.
One and a half hours through rice paddies and rivers and meet back at the Bintang truck for the odd Bintang!!!!!!
Restaurants;
Kori, 3 times, our Fav.
Massimos in Sanur, the best Italian ever!
Maccaroni, Kuta, great Italian and an enjoyable place to dine!
Ja an's , Semenyak, a new place, 3 story and up market.
Gateway to India, great Indian food, a first for me!
Bounty Hotel Buffe on N.Y.E, every Friday they have this Buffe and we always make sure we enjoy this meal every trip!
Jimbaran Bay, Went to Menega near the Four Seasons. This was the best meal we have had at Jimbaran out of about 20 times, for 7 of us we had 2 large size snapper, 1 large king fish, 6 large river prawns,
a kilo of Chumi and about 20 pippies (small shell type mussels) and drinks. came to 465,000 or AUD$8.95 per head.
Night clubs;
Hard Rock Centre Stag, CarmaSutra, MbarGo, Paddies, Fuel.
As this was a short trip we didn't venture out mutch and spent most of the days by the pool with many friends we have meet in Bali over the years, also spent an afternoon with Bob and Christine (Bob_Melb)
savoring a few Bintang at the Bounty and then over the road to Rainbow before finishing up with a couple of SanMigels at Kori, just for a change.
Must go to the Travel agents and book for July.!!!!!!
Bob