Lombok

Saturday 26th - Tuesday 29th August

Saturday
It was an early wake up call this morning to wait for our transfer at 6:30am! We had the craziest driver and, not gonna lie, I'm genuinely surprised we didn't crash a few times! The boat was sweltering, we stupidly sat downstairs for the first bit to Gili T Island, and there was no fresh air at all. Luckily heaps of people got off on Gili T so we carried on to Lombok in style at the top with all the fresh air! Gili T looks so lush, pretty similar to the mamanuca islands! We'll be heading there in a few days so excited for that.

After arriving in Lombok, we grabbed a taxi and headed towards our backpackers. It's a pretty cute wee place called La Boheme Lombok. We're in a 4 bed en suite, although the shower is a bit questionable! But fuck the food here is super cheap! My accommodation and meals combined cost less than £12... that's mental! We wandered down to the beach nearby and, after hopping over about a million ropes mooring the boats, we found a little spot to chill in. Or so we thought. We were in the sea for a bit before emma noticed she felt like she was getting stung repeatedly.i had a look and we both had little sea kites all over us! So there went our afternoon at the beach! To be fair it was pretty cloudy today anyway so tanning time was not an option, plus we need to get beach towels and stuff anyway!

The rest of the afternoon consisted of us attempting to go out, but the scooters we're all hired out and there's nothing really in the local area which was a shame! So we ended up chilling in the 'cinema' area watching greys anatomy! And I have to say I've been loving it! It's so nice to chill out and not feel guilty about it!

Sunday
The day started out amazingly with an included breakfast of banana pancakes! I was super disappointed at first, but Abdul was so cute about it I couldn't not eat it and I actually fully enjoyed it! And it was super filling so win win! The plan was to hire out scooters and go explore the island, but, as we hadn't ridden before, we weren't allowed to hire them out as they were worried for our safety! (Fair enough really!) so we grabbed a taxi instead... had a bit of confusion with the currency but sorted t it in the end! We ended up going to Senggigi which is so much nicer than the beach near la boheme. We chilled out for the morning before grabbing food at cocoloco, I had the red Thai chicken  curry and it was to die for! So good. Unfortunately it had gotten pretty cloudy so we headed hack at around 3. We had a new girl from Toronto in our room and she was so lovely! We got to chatting and then went on a wee walk around the area and found a nicer bit of the beach to the one emma and I found yesterday! We then went to watch the sunset on the hill which was pretty cool just super sweaty! The plan was to then go down to watch the bonfire on the beach but we were all shattered so had another early night!

Monday
We decided to head back to senggigi this morning and this time I remembered it being a book so the day went much quicker as I powered through it pretty quickly! I decided against having a normal
Lunch and went for just a cake instead... i immediately felt so much better than I had for a while... guess I just needed a good chocolate boost! Emma and I were so happy this evening as we managed to stream the latest episode of Game of Thrones... j was so worried I wouldn't get to watch it by the wifi here is actually better than some of the places in New Zealand thank god!

Tuesday
It was time to say goodbye to Lombok this morning! We had an early wake up call at 6am, we were told to grab breakfast at 6:30am but no one was there sadly! So we headed down to the harbour to catch the free boat to Gili T, it reminded me of a few boats in Fiji as I felt like I was going to fall in at some pointa!