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A month on and so much has happened. First up I am now in Indonesia - I flew in to Jakarta and took a train down to Yogjakarta then on to Bali and a boat over to Kuta, Lombok. The trip didn't start off particularly well as, having decided to hire a motorbike for the first time in my life, I got overly confident and crashed in to a tree flying over the handle bars (injury: sprained thumb). A few days later in Kuta Lombok we had to hire another bike - no other way to get around - and Vicki kindly agreed to take the drive with me on the back ... unfortunately one hill proved too much and we did a great wheelie that left both of us on our backs (injuries: minor cuts and scrapes to the leg and knee) . As K L is one of Indonesia's surfing meccas I decided to take Vicki's offer up to teach me to surf. Honestly I tried but having never seen anyone really surf before I found it almost impossible to understand exactly how it was that you were supposed to get from lying down behind the wave to standing up on its face. (injuries: wax burn to the chest, painful ribs and neck, cut toes and bruised knees).
Whilst in KL we hooked up with a fantastic bunch of people ... Jeff, Luke, Judith and Michael and all headed out to the Gillis for some serious R and R. The first night with the almost full moon shining on the sea it seemed like a fantastic idea to go swimming - I should have known better with my recent accident history as I managed to stand on a sea urchin (injury: about 10 spikes in the sole of my foot).
All good fun and I have some lovely photos of all of the above but another technical hitch prevents me from posting them so instead above is a photo of Vicki, me and Luke in the horse cart leaving the Gillis and another of Michael trying to scare a monkey and the consequences of trying to mess with an Indonesian monkey ....
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