In Reply to: JBR - quite long posted by Carol B on Tuesday, 24. June 2008 at 11:35 Bali Time:
an interesting and informative read especially about the hotel grounds. I enjoyed the fish pond and orchid garden at the Ramayan Spa and Resort opposite the art market on my last trip, but will definitely put the Bali Mandira on the top of my list for next trip.
Thanks for an excellent read.
PS Enjoyed your conservative view about Aussie males, but your complaints seem to about relatively tame behaviour - for the best examples of extremely obnoxious Aussie male behaviour stay at a hotel like the Barong around Sept Oct at the end of the Aussie football season - could have filled a JBR on that alone - but sometimes the tables get turned on them...
will always remember going to breakfast early on my last day after another noisy night to see one of the footballers standing in the pool sculling a bottle of scotch and telling any one who would listen that he wanted to go home because his night with a women of the night hadn't gone well "his protection had broken and he was worried his man hood would go black and drop off (or so his fellow footballers at the breakfast tables kept reminding him), but he couldn't go home because when he had woken up everything in his room had gone cloths, money and passport"