Thursday, July 3, 2008

Villa Sankara - Natrabu Lunch 27Jun'08




We headed out this morning to the Matahari in Kuta to get groceries for the villa. Carrefour would've been a better choice. :-)

On the way back, we detoured to Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai (towards Sanur) to get Natrabu for lunch.

From the spread at the restaurant to our modest buffet at the villa. Silakan...

Villa Sankara Pool & Jacuzzi

Filled with lots of splashing fun and laughter!
There is also a jacuzzi at the end of the eternity pool over looking the waves.




Vila Sankara, Bali - Today's Inspiration 03Jul08

Today's inspiration.

The view from our bedroom on the first morning at Villa Sankara.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Villa Sankara Bathrooms

These are the bathrooms of Villa Sankara.

From the top - this bathroom is with the bedroom above the dinning area.

2nd - This was our bathroom, the smallest of the lot. Our bedroom was the one on top of the lounge area.

3rd - The square tub is in the private villa with the private jacuzzi.

Bottom - The round tub is in the other private villa.



Our First Look at Villa Sankara

Our flight got into Bali past 8pm, by the time we got to Villa Sankara, the sun had set and dinner we waiting for us.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Bali - 1st July 2008

Going to make the most of today! TS & WG left really late last night and the rest of us are heading out in 3 separate batches starting with the 1pm flight.

Fata & I headed to Warung Made to meet PY & WL for lunch, and to buy back for the others who wanted to enjoy the villa more.

The rest of the afternoon was spent in the pool and taking lots of pictures.

Bali Post Script:

Some pointers for those visiting Villa Snakara anytime soon:

- there is NO direct access to the beach. (yet...?)

- there is nothing you can do with the bugs here, they have been here longer than you will be, so live and let live.

- you can get your groceries from Carrefour.

- the driver is available with the car only for 10 hours per day. Plan your usage, otherwise the driver's overtime is 30,000 rp her hour. He turned up at 6am everyday, but most of the time we didn't need him 'til after breakfast.

Bali - 30th June 2008

The golfers headed off to Nirwana again at about 9am. The rest of us went to Carrefour to get groceries for more food.

Seminyak's shopping strip is fun though the heat took a little getting used to. Warung Made's lunch was better than dinner early as there were way less people. The ribs tasted like Chinese BBQ pork! hahaha...

Some of decided to take the 2 rental motorcycles out of a spin. I tried that a-la-photographer-at-the-back-of-a-motorcycle thing, but my pilot slipped on sand while trying to avoid a pot hold, and oops! Scratched on the right elbow (had to protect the camera!), left knee and right outer shin. hahaha... silliness...

We'd attacked the pool again in the late afternoon. yippee!

Then someone suggested that we walk along the beach to Ku De Ta. Cos that someone said it should only take about 35 minutes from Berawa beach. Well... after almost 60 minutes we finally reached Resor Sminyak.

Ku De Ta & La Lucciola were fully booked :-( fortunately Ultimo had room for 13 of us. Yummy! I had the lobster salad (could have been crayfish though it was called aragosta), and the Rossi Ultimo (veal with goose liver). With wine, drinks, 3 courses each, it was only about a quarter million rupiah per person.

On the whole of Ultimo, our table had a fairly good meal of meat and fish. But the other table who had primarily pasta dishes, didn't have a great dinner. So many, give the pasta dishes a miss should you ever find yourself at Ultimo, Seminyak, Bali?

Spent the rest of the evening chatting, drinking chocolate milk while smoking cigars, Lemon 100, pink champagne... whatever we had :-)