Day 7 of 7 - Saturday 10th September

No dogs barking through the night.
No songbirds doing their thing at sunrise.
Excellent!

For today we have planned to do -> 
NOTHING 
NIENTE 
ZERO 
NADA 
НИЧЕГО 
KHÔNG CÓ GÌ
NIČ
XEJN
RES
何もありません
INTET
NIKS
E LEAI SE MEA
ไม่มีอะไร
HİÇBİR ŞEY DEĞİL

.... in that precise order ;-)

We actually headed south along Jalan Raya Basangkasa / Raya Seminyak / Legian for about 40 minutes then turned right towards the beach to head back home. We took a big unplanned detour which led us past a shop that had this out the front ...

I'm out the front snapping away with my phone and a guy comes out and starts chatting away, as only people from here do, and with a proud biker twist, and asks if I'd like to come in and look at some of the other stuff inside.

We're on the same page so I gladly follow him in.

He's got a soft-tail frame that's going to have a seriously engraved motor in it, eventually. He was telling me that the motor alone was going to have ~900 hours of engraving on it.

Now it's here that you need to know that this guy is no "easy way out" type of guy. He doesn't use an electric tool to engrave. He hand chisel EVERYTHING! Honestly, it doesn't matter if you are into Triumphs or HD or even bikes but you MUST appreciate the quality of this guys work.

And that goes for a shedload of Bali based bike fabricators. 

These guys are awesome. And I do mean AWESOME.

Below are his contact details and this is their site.

Go there, if only for the music on their home page.      

I'm so glad we tend to wander around somewhat aimlessly when we're on holidays, as gems like this often turn up.

And yet another oddity about this place hit me as we wandered around.

Thongs aka flip-flops aka jandals.

Just how many can a place sell?

Well, apparently, a lot.

  

The three stores above sell thongs. Only thongs. 

They have thousands of them in their stores, which are everywhere.

Other than colours and branding they appear all the same.

Much the same as a pair of good ones at Target,

BUT will cost you a shedload more.

marketing marketing marketing is the key

The final hours of the afternoon were spent drinking the last few drops of gin from the first of our two duty free one litre bottles of Tanqueray and dipping in and out of the pool.

The driver picked us up 8:30pm at it was a very slow drive to the airport.

It seems that Saturday night in Galungan sees everyone out and about.

We still arrived at the airport in good time to catch our 11:15pm flight and after going through four security checks, one of which impressively picked up on my titanium and cobalt internal parts, we finally made it to the lounge.

The bar staff at which we stopped for one final drink were overwhelmed and the service was pitifully slow.

The staff were doing there best and the new airport is now well airconditioned so it was not so bad.

We took off on time and having exit row seats made the sleepness overnight trip bearable.