After a really tough 3 day week at Luna2..

Over the bank holiday weekend, celebrating the end of Ramadan, we beach crawled from Padang Padang to Dream land to Jimbaran. Padang Padang was hosting the annual Rip curl cup so was heaving! We joined the hundreds and hundreds of surfers piling down the cliff creeks onto the white sandy beach, trying our hardest to blend in with sun-kissed, bleach blond surfer chicks… However Jamie gave us away with his factor 30 and preference to the shade. There is not a lot to say about Dream land other than that it is not worth the detour through acres and acres of half constructed golf resorts. We raced to Jimbaran beach for a sunset- Bintang session. Jimbaran beach is cocooned by a vibrant stretch of fish restaurants. We were spoilt for choice and had no recommendations, other than to buy a chili-butter corn on the cob from a local beach-vender whilst you wait- so went with our gut instinct/favourite table cloths and picked Warung Ganesha. You order by the KG, pick your own fish and 20 minutes later your eating red Snapper, which has leaped 5 meters on to your plate, like a king! It’s very grounding to think that at 7pm, almost exactly 8 years to this day, 20 people were killed on these sandy beaches and in busy-hedonistic Kuta, the two sites targeted by the terrorist networkJemaah Islamiah. Harrowing as that fact is, it’s inspiring to see how Bali has moved on and how Jimbaran’s has been restored to the fish’n’corn-on-the-cob lover’s haven it’s always been!