I've not been feeling very inspired to write recently & for about three days I was not even feeling inspired enough to go far beyond my bed. But I owe this blog (& my dedicated public tee-hee) an update.
Since I last wrote I have mostly been staying in Kuta; surfing Canggu (with occasional forays to Kuta beach & reef) & refusing to give in to a cold. On June 1st I flew all of 20 minutes to Lombok. The ferry takes between 5 & 7 hours & is a nightmare so I didn't feel too guilty. I checked into a guesthouse in Kuta & got knocked down by flu. Three days of doing virtually nothing seems to have put me right enough to go surfing these last two days. I've been surfing a break called 'Don-Dons' that feels like an amphitheatre of water. Its a short ride in a fishing boat from shore. The swell comes at you in a semi-circle; often has a step in it & somehow feels as if you've sunk down rather that the wave has risen up. Once you catch the wave its great: Fairly soft & peels both left & right, which helps with the inevitable crowd.
I didn't make a typo, I did go from Kuta to Kuta. Oddly enough Lombok's 'surf town' is also called 'Kuta'. Indonesian for town is 'Kota' so maybe that's where both names spring from? Anyway, this Kuta has about 10 guesthouses rather than Bali's 10,000. It has fewer people hassling you to buy things (Although after buying a sarong I got jumped by all the other stallholders to buy something from their stall... aaargh!!)& is generally more chilled out by a factor of 100. It has fantastic scenery: Triangular hills stitched together by white beaches are the coast; steep hills & ridges covered in palms define the horizon inland; waves breaking on outer reefs define it out to sea. Providing the swell holds up I think I'll be happy spending the last 2 weeks (sob!) of my holiday here :-)
Sorry if this isn't proof read quite properly. I'm having to overhear a whining Californian girl with the wrong attitude while trying to check this. See, its not quite paradise!
