Ika woke me up this morning and said ‘look at the time we have to go’.
It was 8.45am and I overslept, I must of been tired. Vaguely remember watching someone dressed in a ghost outfit doing stretching exercises in the dark at 3am then went back to sleep.
Its bloody hot today, no rain but still scorching. I wore a long sleeve shirt to ride down to Kuta and drop Ika off at her auntie’s warung. When riding I like to play around and use the Balinese hand signal of fluttering the finger, arm outstretched by my backside. This means I want to turn in that direction.
To get to the warung in between Poppies I & II we snake through Jl. Padma, Jl. Melasti and Jl. Benesari, the whole ride taking 15 minutes from my house.
After spening time online I got a call from Mike Hilis who wanted to have lunch. Mike was in Kerobokan so I jetted up the Sunset Rd on my bike and was there in 20 minutes. We ate at Warung Gossip and chatted out back about life in Bali and other stuff. Mike wants to sell his house near Tampaksiring and find a new place around Sanur.
After I left Mike I went back down the Sunset Rd to Sanur and the good news is that wretched switchback that you have to do on Jl. Iman Bonjol is gone forever as they have finally fixed this part of the Bypass. For people who haven’t seen what I’m talking about imagine a 4 lane highway that crosses a mainroad. To go from one side to the other other you have to get all the way across 3 lanes of traffic on the busy main road and over to the left turn lane. People used to do this by turning left, driving down the street, pulling a dangerous U-turn on the center divider and then turning left on to the next section of the highway which is located 20 meters further along than the other section. Now the 2 sections are opposite each other and that means even without traffic lights a certain degree of sanity has entered the equation. Now I can always proceed in the direction I want to travel and only have to worry about maniacs in 4 lanes….which for an experienced Bali driver is nothing.
I visited a small hotel inSanur called the Coconut Grove Village right on Bypass Ngurah Rai. Funky little place with simple rooms and Balinese style villas. The owner Made and his sister were happy to chat with me and we laughed as she is the owner of a restaurant on Jl. Oberoi in Seminyak that is being put out of business by Rumours. I tell you that place pumps out food so cheap and good that other restaurants have no chance to compete.
Back in Kuta I bumped into Barrie and Candika and had good conversations with tourists at the next table, Barrie volunteering me a a ‘great photographer’ and ’story teller’. Its very cheap to get somebody ‘whacked’ here in Bali.
Tommorrow we’re hitting some temples and I’ll try to remain attentive throughout. Normally 1 temple a day is my limit but this could be interesting.
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Hi Tracey,
Good one mate!. Have you got the address of that monkey?. Yaitu, tree number etc!.
I will let you know when I do!!!!!
I hope your having fun… Ha Ha Ha.. I know your having a ball!!!!
A monkey is sitting in a tree smoking a joint when a lizard walks past and
looks up and says to the monkey
“hey! what are you doing? “The monkey says “smoking a joint, come up and
have some.”
So the lizard climbs up and sits next to the monkey and they have a few
joints.
After a while the lizard says his mouth is ‘ dry ‘and is going to get a
drink from the river.
The lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the
river.
A Crocodile sees this and swims over to the lizard and helps him to the
side, then asks the lizard, “What’s the matter with you??”
The lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting with
the monkey in a tree smoking a joint, got too stoned and then fell into the
river while taking a drink.
The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the jungle,
finds the tree were the monkey is sitting, finishing a joint,
and he looks up and calls to the monkey ” Hey! ”
The Monkey looks down and says ” faaaaaaark…….how much water did you
drink??”