A very quiet day spent inside my room cowering from horizontal rain and howling gales. Not what I expected when I booked the tickets but kinda cool anyway. 

I am hearing lots of good things about the surf back in Cornwall but I promise you, surfing in shorts is much better! The waves have been good here for the past week or so but then, how often is it bad out in Bali? Headhigh waves at least everyday, not breath of wind until the early afternoon and colossal thunderstorms every night. The afternoon sea breeze has kicked in at the moment but there are still some beauty waves coming through with no one out at all.

Hello from Bali blog fan. Five days in to the holiday and I have a few observations to share with you on Bali. 
Boy oh boy does stuff happen quick out here. Last time I was in this part of Bali (just over two years ago) you had to get petrol from a bloke selling it in milk bottles from the back of his restaurant while chain smoking clove cigarettes. 
Now there are brand new service stations everywhere and they pour the petrol for you just like they did in Britain in the 80's. Quite a luxury I can tell you.

Well I've sorted out where I'm off for my holidays and its gonna be Bali again. The woolie wetsuit is good but you can't beat surfing in shorts in powerful waves and re-energising between surfs with a ridiculously cheap fruit juice and egg fried rice.
Surf has taken a turn for the worse again and its looking like the usual winter waves getting blown in on the back of a 30mph westerly wind is the best we can expect for a while. 
Not that I care, I'm off on Friday. 
Yewwwwww!