Rhonda Bracey: At Random

We were up at 6:00 am for a 6:45 am pickup by our driver. We arrived in plenty of time for our flight — the traffic was pretty light at that hour of the day. The gate wasn’t even allocated until about 20 mins before boarding, so we had to wander about the international terminal past security — a ploy to get you do last-minute shopping? The flight was due to leave at 9:30 am but we didn’t take off until about 9:45.

We had an uneventful flight back to Perth (beef rendang was my choice again for the meal), and cleared immigration, customs and baggage claim in about 15 minutes (a record for me at Perth International Airport!). My nephew was waiting to pick us up. After getting dropped at my sister’s place, I drove the 90 minutes home. Not a big deal when it’s only about a 3 hour flight 😉

The highlights of my first trip to Bali:

• Spending time with my parents and sister (our first ‘just us’ family holiday in almost 40 years!)
• Bumbu Bali Cooking School — I highly recommend this!
• The fabric place in the Denpasar markets for quilting batiks at $2.40 a metre
• Totally relaxing in a warm tropical climate, in such a beautiful location
• The food!
• Amazing massages, foot reflexology, etc.
• The low prices of everything.

Would I go again? Yep!