Building castles in the sun and singing 'fun fun fun'.

My final week in Indonesia is being spent in Bali. We are staying in the resort town of Kuta, which is full of tourists, bars and restaurants. It's not exactly the white sands and beaches you imagine when you think of Bali (think Blackpool instead!) but we're still having a good time. We went para-sailing which was brilliant, and yesterday I had a surfing lesson. I managed to stand up quite a few times when the instructor was out with me, telling me which waves to go for, but when I had the board on my own afterwards I only managed to catch one wave. Fail. It's hard to know which are the good waves, and which ones you should let go. Mostly though, we've just been relaxing on the beach, building sandcastles and playing hopscotch with Indonesian kids!
Tomorrow we have a car and driver booked, who hopefully will take us to some beaches that are more secluded and beautiful, ending up somewhere we can have a BBQ and watch the sunset.
We are finding it a little strange here, having spent 3 weeks in Java in little villages and non-touristy areas, it's so crowded and noisy, and everything here is more expensive as well - not compared to the UK of course, but compared to Java it certainly is!
Our hotel is very nice, we have yummy breakfasts and a lovely pool - a nice escape from the beach where you get someone trying to sell you something every five minutes! Most of the locals are very friendly, but sometimes when you're walking down the street and everyone is trying to get you into their shop or offer you transport or just shouting at you, it just gets very annoying! But despite all that, Indonesia's been great fun, and I'm looking forward to the next leg - Australia on monday!!
xx

Building castles in the sun and singing 'fun fun fun'.

Kuta, Indonesia