Bali

Duh · Guru

Bali

gst · Senior Member

Well by 3pm Monday will be in Bali will spend two weeks just laying around doing nothing.

pauline · Guru

Hope you all enjoy it but I'm afraid you're welcome to it.................don't mean to offend anyone.

Cloak · Guru

Offend anyone?

Like you I just don't get why anyone would go to those places - and I don't give a toss if anyone is offended either.

yeoeleven · Guru

I had the best time in Bali last year when I visited for a month, I posted all my adventures and activities in the following thread:- http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t47676232/bali-in-march/

Everything was also posted in the blog.

John

pauline · Guru

I know you had a great time John and am pleased when fellow travellers do............just not a place I want to visit, just shows how different we all are.

03_troopy · Guru

Any place you haven't alrady been is worth visiting I reckon. I had a 2 day stopover in Bali back in the 80's and stayed in a hotel with a bar in the middle of the swimming pool. Not sure why, but it seems sitting in water up to your middle while drinking beer has the effect of making you not need to go for a pee..... Well in 3 hours we sat there i never saw one person get out and go for one? One of those quirks of nature i guess.

carry1 · Veteran Member

You both have a great time Greg, have a couple of brandy and ginger ale for us.

gst · Senior Member

Good thing will be my son,daughter inlaw and older grandchildren will be there and my wife and I have not seen them in two and a half years.

PS. We have been there before and yes love Hong Kong two.

-- Edited by gst on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 03:24:29 PM

golivers travels · Guru

gst wrote:
Well by 3pm Monday will be in Bali will spend two weeks just laying around doing nothing.

Must be the time of year for a trip to Bali. We are heading there on May 15th for 11 days........bird watching as usual.

Have a great time Greg and Mrs Greg

Landfall · Guru

Never really had the inkling to go to Bali, but later this year we are flying to Singapore to join a cruise ship that calls into Bali, will reserve my comments about the place till then.

Three years ago we flew to Hong Kong to join a cruise ship, spent three days in HK before going aboard. We loved HK so much we flew back there a year later and spent a month there.

The beauty about the cruise ships is that they usually only spend a day in the various ports, if you don't like the food ar anything else, just stay or go back onboard. If you do like a place, you can always go back.

Ken

03_troopy · Guru

Duh wrote:
03_troopy wrote:
Any place you haven't alrady been is worth visiting I reckon. I had a 2 day stopover in Bali back in the 80's and stayed in a hotel with a bar in the middle of the swimming pool. Not sure why, but it seems sitting in water up to your middle while drinking beer has the effect of making you not need to go for a pee..... Well in 3 hours we sat there i never saw one person get out and go for one? One of those quirks of nature i guess.
Did you notice any change in the colour of the water during that time
Gst, my stepdaughter and her husband just returned from their honeymoon there and had a ball! Also avoided "Bali Belly" so that was a plus.   I've been there twice in the past, one of those was our (2nd time around) honeymoon too, had a great time.
Things do happen over there like anywhere, just take precautions and enjoy your stay.

-- Edited by Duh on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 08:50:43 PM

It was a bit hard to tell the colour through sunglasses, but it was definitely a salt water pool..

We lived in Penang for 2 and half years, and the only time i got food poisoning was twice from eating in the RAAF mess. One good tip though, if you're eating from small resaurants or food stalls, try to eat at places that are popular with the locals (like the "eating where truckies eat" rule back home). Not sure how relevent that will be in Bali though, because it's so tourist orientated and I'm not sure if they still have many food stalls.

-- Edited by 03_troopy on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 08:05:13 PM

Duh · Guru

Troopy said.....We lived in Penang for 2 and half years, and the only time i got food poisoning was twice from eating in the RAAF mess. One good tip though, if you're eating from small resaurants or food stalls, try to eat at places that are popular with the locals (like the "eating where truckies eat" rule back home). Not sure how relevent that will be in Bali though, because it's so tourist orientated and I'm not sure if they still have many food stalls.
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Ditto on Penang Troopy, but only bait I got was at the Eden Restaurant in Penang, a very upmarket place as you would know.
I was having lunch with a French Jewish singer who was performing at the Merlin. We both had prawn ****tails, she was not impressed as she had to perform the next day.
She was a rather remarkable woman who was also a reserve Sgt who had served in the Israeli Army. Being in a muslim country she had to keep quiet about her Jewish background and was hired as a French singer only.
I had eaten at a lot of local restaurants in Penang, Thailand and Singapore, many with dirt floors and tin roofs (also carts sitting over the monsoon drains) and the Eden was the only place I ever got a bait! Prawns are a risk at the best of times.

03_troopy · Guru

Hehe, my Gran-dad was born in Madras and joined the British Indian army in Chennai when he was 13 (about 1914 I think). All we ever had for dinner when I lived with them for a while as a kid, was stewed everything and Yorkshire pud. And raw "monkey nuts" (peanuts) for a snack in front of the telly.

Ooops.. a bit far from the original topic. Sorry about that..

-- Edited by 03_troopy on Friday 3rd of May 2013 06:38:27 PM

03_troopy · Guru

Yes Vic I remember the Eden very well. I remember the big queues of tight @rse RAAFies waiting to get a seat for their "express lunch". About 10 ringit from memory (may have even been less) But we always had a great meal there. The waterfall was another good one. We often ate from the makan stalls, and apart from the odd stink bug in the curry, never had any problems. Remember Hillside Makan stalls and chilli crab, roti chanai, egg and onion rotis.. fried mah mee.. satay chicken and pork skewers with the peanut sauce.. (always break the bamboo skewers so they can't reuse them) my mouth is watering now... mm wouldn't mind an anchor right now either..

Duh · Guru

03_troopy wrote:
Yes Vic I remember the Eden very well. I remember the big queues of tight @rse RAAFies waiting to get a seat for their "express lunch". About 10 ringit from memory (may have even been less) But we always had a great meal there. The waterfall was another good one. We often ate from the makan stalls, and apart from the odd stink bug in the curry, never had any problems. Remember Hillside Makan stalls and chilli crab, roti chanai, egg and onion rotis.. fried mah mee.. satay chicken and pork skewers with the peanut sauce.. (always break the bamboo skewers so they can't reuse them) my mouth is watering now... mm wouldn't mind an anchor right now either..

I don't remember the express lunch, might have come in after I left.

Loved those Roti Chanai's, our favourite local open air restaurant for them was at Butterworth, the old cook was Indian and had served as a cook in the Indian Arm during WW2.

In the main street of Georgetown there was a big open sided restaurant all the locals went to, had to eat with your hands (wash basin on the wall), they had the largest Tiger Prawns I have ever seen, curried, must have been a least 18cms long, had to watch you didn't get the curry all over your clothes. I reckon Penang had the best food I have ever had, and you can get a meal at any time of the day or night.

I'm drooling now thinking about it..... cry

03_troopy · Guru

gst, enjoy your trip and enjoy the local atmosphere as it comes. Keep an open mind (and probably an open wallet.. hehe) and try to get away from the tourist thing if you can. Your trip will be much more enjoyable if you can get to see people and places less affected by the by the holy grail of the tourist dollar.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.