Saturday 8th
February
I went to an
amazing vegan café yesterday called Alchemy.
It was delicious, all of the food is raw with salads of all
descriptions, juices, ice cream, sweets, and they even make amazing quiches;
the base is also raw made of an almond and coconut type mix.
Raining today
which is the first time we have rain on and off all day, it’s usually a
downpour then clears again in an hour.
We were up
early to farewell Lydia who we will miss, she has been great company and always
interesting to talk too. Most of the girls are heading to different beaches
today but we are staying put and I think I will book a massage ($10 – 1 hour), We have done a fair bit of reading today.
This is the
blurb from the Lala Lili Spa’s brochure – it’s very cute
Balinese Massage
This beautiful and excellent metoda of
touch with heart by lovely hand for free of stress, relax muscle, and amazing
life with the best aroma therapy what you need.
(Massage was
great by the way)
Sunday 9th February
Well we did it, we hired a motorbike and went on tour, no
plan just winging it. We spent about four hours heading towards the highlands
until it looked like we would get rained on, so changed direction and
eventually found our way back to Ubud by following some very random signs and
interesting sights. The traffic was its usual chaos, however not as bad as the
mayhem we experienced in Vietnam. It was a really enjoyable day and apart from
a little sunburn very successful.
We stopped off at a
coffee plantation where they make the famous and expensive Luwak coffee. This is the process where the coffee beans
are eaten by the Luwak; similar to a
possum in NZ, and then after it has gone through its digestive system it is
pooped out, collected, cleaned, dried , shelled, roasted and the coffee bean
ground into coffee. We refrained from
trying however many people were. I
couldn’t quite get into it and Jim was adamant he wasn’t trying it!
Teaching tomorrow, and Jim gets a new partner as Lydia has
finished her volunteering and is headed home to Slovakia, she will be missed.
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