Road back to Bali 2016: Day 5 of 7 in Bali

Today was a slow day with the highlight being a visit to Jillian Wrights Lily Lane Villas on the outskirts of Ubud, far far away from the maddening crowds of Kuta, Semiyak and even central Ubud town.

Adi, our trusty driver, picked us up at 9am and had us there by 10:30am, which seems like a lot of time to travel ~30kms unless you're in the southern part of Bali AND it's the second day of Galungan, which is the dayeveryone goes around visiting.
If the gods made a more cordial person than Jillian I wish someone would let me know.
We had a wonderful day in her company and were very impressed with the villas. Impressed enough that there are whispers of a couple of Watsonians investing in one. We'll see.

The dining area where the pics of Tiz and I, above, where taken.

Jillian and I talking about existentialism

.... or maybe just me rabitting on about nothing

Below are just a couple of pics of the gardens and grounds at Lily Lane.

This garden, although not shown here, produces much of the vegetables and fruit served up to guests.

Seasonal fresh food.

It doesn't get any better than that.

Spa, above and below

Really lovely slabs of wood, seen at a shop on the way back to Seminyak.

Shame they won't fit into the luggage.

As one of the main purposes of coming to Bali was to restock our exhausted supply of vanilla we called into the spice market to do some "hankering".
We did OK with the good natured to-ing and fro-ing to reach an agreeable price and now have enough vanilla beans to last a very long while.

Being a slowish day regular readers of my blogs know that it is an excuse for me to indulge myself with sharing pictures of things motive.
If you don't care for them, look away now.

Coming up - 1941 Willys Jeep restomod.

No idea what powers it but it's a great job.

I'll try to find the owner tomorrow and ask him a few questions about it.