This was my 18th trip since 1991.
My son 22 and myself 51,departed melb 1.35 pm on sunday 15th march with jetstar and flew to darwin, did duty free shopping at darwin and ordered and paid for duty free for collection on the way back, we had a 3 hour wait before departing for bali, both flights left on time.
We arrived in bali at 8.20 pm bali time, had arranged prior to be picked up by nyoman that goes by the name of(wazza)contact details are mob:085237049927, he's a young man around 25 with perfect english, he took my son and i to bakungsari hotel in kuta and charged me 50.000 rp, we got to the hotel and dropped our cases off and headed for matahari's to stock up on water, and mossies coils, we came back had some tea and hit the sack.
On monday morning we got up had our breaky then headed off up legian st, was stunned when i saw paddy's night club gone, was told they went bankrupt last year and closed down.
we walked up to melasti st, and went to uncle norm's bar to see an old friend of mine i'd known for years, he's name is Putu, but a lot of people know him as Robbie, when we left there, we walked up garlic lane to padma st, then back down legian st,
I took my old pieces of gold and my mother's wedding and engagement ring that were left to me in her will, and also an old engagement ring of mine and took them to mrs pak, at bali rani hotel, i got mum's rings enlarge 3 sizes, and my engagement ring melted down and a new ring made, cost all up $38 i was very happy with that.
Didn't really do much shopping, mainly dvd's and at sakura if u buy 10 u get 4 free, got 4 watches, 2 with leather bands and big faces for 40.000 each and 2 metal bands for 50.000 at centro.
i also got 2 pairs of dress shorts with pin strips on them, from jenny, and dianne's shops in tuban for 60.000 and 55.000
Left bali on friday night at 10.50pm, check in was a nightmare, all passengers were left standing there for over an hour, while the balinese just stood around talking. we finally got processed 30 mins before departure, so people were panicking trying to get through paying there departure tax and immagration and getting to the boarding gate on time, we left 20 mins late because of it.
Finally took off and arrived in darwin 2 and a half hours later, picked up my duty free, then went through customs pretty quickly as we were the only flight in, then had to wait for 5 hours before departing back to melbourne. We got no sleep at all, Next flight departed darwin at 8.15 am there time and finally landed at 2 pm melbourne time.By the time we got back we both had headaches, got back home around 3.30 and was in bed by 4.
so thats my jbr,i haven't been anywhere else in the world, so now i think it's about time i experienced another country, as i'm in no hurry to go back there.