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Every year for the last 3 years Luca and me have been coming to Bali.

Every time Luca said he wanted to learn to surf but we always spent most of the time in Ubud, a village in the hills, and worked.

And the, back in Bangkok, he always complained that he could not surf in Bali. Read the rest of this entry »

A week ago in Gili Trawangan Luca had an idea to go to Gili Meno by canoe.
First, I am silent, then I said yes, but if we can find a canoe for 2 persons.
The next morning we were walking and looking for the canoe but we couldn’t find it.
Luca was looking at me and said “Lek, let’s try one each, if you can’t do, just tell me”.
I can do it. I can do it. I keep telling my self after I hear that sentence.
My heart start feeling fear but I said to myself “I must try it maybe I can do it”.

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Quick, simple and not too expensive: this is our slogan.

I am talking about “Padang Food” . This is not Balinese food but it’s very common here anyway.
This kind of food tastes like some kind of Thai food, a lot of coconut milk with curry. For sure this kind of food can make you wake up as it’s spicy but it’s up to choose the food, so becareful!
There are many choices: fish, chicken, pork, shrimp, boiled egg, soft tofu or fried tofu (all menu with curry, fried or deep fried with curry) boiled plain vegetable , sometime they have vegetable with curry, chili paste and many choices of sauce (peanut sauce, chicken sauce, fish curry sauce) served with steamed hot rice.

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Ubud, Bali, April 3rd, 2007
Tum Tum Pa Tum Tum…a soft sound of traditional Bali music comes to my ears.
It sounds nice to hear in the quiet night of nature, of insect sound combined with a human music, becomes a nice sound of a culture and the beautiful life that you can find in here Ubud, Bali.
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