Bali 2022

This is a very comfortable hotel but it can be noisy. You can often hear noises in the hallway and knocking noises in adjacent rooms. This morning there was a very loud noise just before 6am. I'm not sure what it was but it could have been a low-flying plane or a truck. Perhaps it was just a thunderstorm. I eventually got out of bed at about 7:30 because noises made it hard to get back to sleep. Somehow I managed to stub the little toe on my right foot. I can't remember how or when I did it but I do know that it still hurts. Once again, I had problems with the hotel Wi-Fi and so I solved the problem again by using my mini Wi-Fi device. Opening the curtains, it looked like a bright sunny day. However my weather app was forecasting up to 40mm of rain. Currently it was 27C with a forecast maximum of 32C. Humidity was 89%. We went down to the Rock Royalty courtyard area for breakfast soon after 8:30am - except for John who had gone to the hotel gym and joined us a little later. Thi...

Although I had planned to sleep in, I woke at about 6am local time and eventually decided, having failed to get back to sleep,  to get up at about 7am. Graham contacted me at about 7:30 to say that he was worried about Covid because Allana, who had been staying with them, had contracted Covid. I gave him the RAT kit I'd bought with me and he tested negative. Nicky, John and Harry were still in bed and so Graham and I went down to have breakfast without them at about 8:15am. It took a while to find the restaurant because it was down a long corridor and there were no signs. It was a large restaurant and was crowded with diners. The buffet had a wide selection and there were two counters to place special orders. Graham explained that John had arranged express service at the airport last night to take them quickly through all the stages. This explained why they had arrived at the hotel soon after me despite catching a later flight than mine. Apparently, Harry hadn't slept on the pl...

I am due to fly out of Sydney for Bali on Jetstar. There had been lots of problems with Jetstar lately with delays and cancellations. For weeks, there have been media reports about Jetstar passengers being stranded in places like Bali, Japan and Hawaii. So I was nervous about how I'd fare today. The Silver Service taxi that I'd booked for 1pm arrived on time and so that was a good start. We reached the international terminal by 1:45pm. Jetstar's check-in was at counter K was quite a long walk. When I got there, there were plenty of people who had arrived before me even though it was three hours before the flight was due to leave. I'd booked to travel business class and so I had expected a short queue. Although there were only three or four family groups in front of me, the queue moved very slowly. It took about 45 minutes before I got the counter. One family group took almost 30 minutes - heaven knows what their problem was. Then again, I was relieved that I hadn't ...