Articles tagged ‘driving’
Road rage in Bali
By Nick | December 30th, 2006 |
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Road rage always seemed to me a pretty childish thing, something I’d never secumb to. Over the last week however I’ve been getting closer to the line. All over the Kuta, Legian, Seminyak area, larger roadworks are going, creating bottlenecks on 2 lane streets. This backs traffic up to the previous junction, which blocks the [...]
Blazing past cops in Bali
By Nick | September 7th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
When I first came to Bali in 2003, cops were pulling people over like crazy on the road. Their favourite hangouts were 4 lane roads, giving them enough space to use 1 lane for stopping people, while not blocking the whole road.
Be careful of Bali parking attendents
By Nick | September 4th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Here in Bali there are 2 kinds of parking attendents, Parkirmen, who take money and issue a ticket, for your parking, and Satpam’s, security gaurds, who double as parking attendents.
Riding a motorbike in Denpasar Bali
By Nick | August 9th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Riding my motorbike in Denpasar today, looking for a particular shop, I rediscovered my reflexes. Anytime I am away from Bali, it takes a while to mentally get used to the sizes and speeds of things. Same when I go to the US or Europe. Over there the cars feel like they’re going 200mph at [...]
Driving in Bali
By Nick | May 6th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Driving in Bali isn’t the huge task it might seem on arrival. There are plenty of places to rent a car cheaply, and qucikly and the driving isn’t too challenging.
Looking for Debbie in Kuta Bali
By Nick | March 1st, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Baliblog gets a decent amount of traffic and I get many emails from people wanting to meet up. Sometimes I am able to and other times I am too busy, forget, lose the contact info etc. Recently Debbie form Alaska came back to Bali and left a note for me at Internet Outpost. I lost [...]
Exploring Bali by Suzuki
By Nick | January 31st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Exploring Bali by car is the way to go (motorbike being the other way). I read travel guides where the stud older traveler goes on about meeting the people and riding a bicycle everywhere. If I lived in a Balinese village I’d ride a bicycle. If I want to explore Bali I will not be [...]
