In Reply to: my bali experience posted by rossw on Thursday, 24. December 2009 at 18:07 Bali Time:
a friend and I went and hired motorbikes for the month that we were there.
based at Pension Joni, now the Legian Village Hotel and the owners son taught us to ride the bikes around the coconut palms in the paddocks where the Padma and the Mandira now stand.
We set off and rode all over the island and had a ball.
Some places had no english but we made our needs known and were able to communicate.
First time out of Australia and it was all so different.
Now go every year at least and am up to about trip 35.
Bali has changed a lot in that time but parts of it are the same.