Bobby Arrives!

04.11.11

Luckily Martin was feeling better this morning, so we lugged

our bags to the Perama office and booked ourselves on a bus

to Sanur. This was where we had arranged to meet Bobby who

was due to arrive this evening and where you can go to the

island Nusa Lembongan from.

We had a few hours to kill so I led Martin to the turning for

the beach we had read about-Pantai Cecil. It was a steep

walk up a gravel path. At the top of the rise they had started

and abandoned building villas. We then had to scramble down

a path throught the undergrowth and piles of gravel down to

the beach. It was a stunning little secluded cove with 3 or

4 little warungs offering shade and food and drink. There were

probably only 15 other tourists on the beach. 1 of which

happened to be from Southampton. We have met 3 English people

to speak to so far on this trip and 2 have been from Southampton!

We spent a happy few hours relaxing on the beach and then got on

the bus to Sanur, which only took a couple of hours via Ubud.

When arrived we decided to pay the extra 10,000 each to take us

to a guesthouse we wanted to check in to as Sanur is very spread

out. In the end we chose the 3rd guesthouse we looked at, Coco

Homestay.

Bobby wasn't arriving until around 11pm so went to look for somewhere

to eat and explore the surroundings. At first we couldn't reconcile

the map we had with these orange signs we kept seeing with a

picture of a beach on. According to the map the signs were pointing

away from the beach and we couldn't work out why. We eventually

realised that the picture actually depicted a person running

away from a large wave, and the sign were showing you which way

to run away from the beach,ie. in case of a Tsunami.

Martin was still feeling a bit fragile after a day of tummy upset

the day before so didn't want to eat Indonesian, so as a treat

we went to Pizza Hut. Which was actually very similar to

England, taste-wise and cheap. We shared a medium tuna pizza

for 50,000R, which is less than £4. So no big trauma to our

budget as feared!

Sanur is incredibly geared up for tourists, but a nice place to

spend a day or two. There are lots of places to eat, medium priced

places to stay with beach view bungalows and pools. Needless to

say our budget didn't quite stretch to that. But Coco's was only

a ten minute walk to the beach and on a road where there was

plenty of choice of places to eat. There is even a wedding chapel

made of glass and shaped like a diamond! Along the beach there are

small pavillions and walk ways out in to the sea. The water

is very shallow and the waves break about 100 metres out, you can

tell why the surfers call it 'Snore'.

As we explored the streets away from the beach every few minutes

a taxi would beep at us and pull over to ply for business, which

gets a little annoying! The road our guest house is on seemed

to go on for miles, with restuarant after another, 3 'Paul Smith'

outlets, several Croc shops and loads of souvenir shops.

After a jaunt of a few hours we headed back to our guesthouse to

await Bobby's arrival.