Monday 7th May 07

Day Four:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love water!

I do. I love being in it, next to it, drinking it, playing with it, watching it, anything. Today, we started off the day at Water Bomb, a water park in Bali. It was great. Terrifying water, lazy rivers, palm trees, kids pools, adults pools and lot of sun. I could have spent all day there but we only had a couple of hours.

The next stop, however, turned out to be even better than the first. We spent three hours at a gorgeous spa. Two hours were for a full body massage (they place hot stones on you too which was just weird) and the last hour was for some special hair treatment and massage. Oh it was good. We were each assigned a masseuse who lead us to secluded little glass rooms, two to a room. Soft music plays as you breathe in relaxing aromatherapy oils. The only thing stopping me from falling asleep was that the sweet young Indonesian girl was systematically beating my muscles into remission, (and the hot stones were hot!) But man it felt good afterwards, kinda like walking on a cloud. (Maybe those weren't aromatherapy oil fumes...)

Spending three hours at a spa doesn't exactly induce the want to do anything afterwards. Nonetheless we went to a place that produces coffee beans (although they weren't very good), a wood carving place, art gallery and batik place before heading to dinner for an Indonesian royal show. The highlight by far was the fruit. I have no clue what most of them were, but they were fantastic.

We got back to the hotel with a nit of extra time (somehow) so spent it wandering around checking things out. I met some guy who, when he found out I was from Scotland, kept spouting names of football players and managers (I'm pretty sure most of them were English.) You'd think that by travelling half way round the world you could escape football, but apparently not. I don't do football.