Posts Tagged ‘Lombok’

March 2010 desktop wallpaper download…

// March 1st, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Desktop Wallpaper

It’s desktop wallpaper download time again and for March 2010 we have the rugged and beautiful Mawi, Lombok. A surfers paradise well off the beaten track in southern Lombok. Mucho Mucho Love… Come Join In…

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Comfort is paramount on the road to Bali.

// April 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Bali

Georgie swinging in the 'Mock on the Bali ferry

The journey back from Gilli Trawangan two days ago couldn’t have gone any better really, I had taken some inspiration from a Michael Palin DVD we watched in which he said

“Any fool can make themselves comfortable.”

We got the small boat from the Island back to Lombok which was painless enough and then a short pony taxi ride to the Bemo station (Bemo is what the Indonesians call a minivan) then a little bit of banter and a few cigarettes secured us the breezy and spacious front seats all the way to the ferry port a good 2 hours away.

Fatigue was unavoidable but armed with a few sachets of Extra Joss (more…)

Our last days on Trawangan… Wild turtles and crazy horses!

// April 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gilli Islands

Harrold the taxi horse on the Gilli Islands

We are now at the end of our last day on Gilli Trawangan, tomorrow we leave for Bali once again stopping briefly at Lombok to transfer to the ferry port.

Yesterday and today have been very relaxing and very quiet, even Georgie has got into waking up early now and we are both at the breakfast table for 8 am for our free breakfast of thick black Lombok coffee, omelette and toast or banana pancake and fruit salad. Even if it is with an audience of half a dozen local stray cats. (more…)

Georgie’s La La Land: Episode 15 Gilli Trawangan

// April 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Travel Videos

In this episode we find our way to the tropical Island of Gilli Trawangan in Indonesia. We mess about on the beach and take a pony ride..

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Georgie’s La La Land: Episode 14 More Lombok

// April 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Travel Videos

We get out and about around Lombok, Indonesia. Georgie feels under the weather but Mona the Monkey lifts her spirits.

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