We awoke to the staff banging on the hotel door to clean the room, leaving us no option but to head downstairs for breakfast. (It really wasn't that late!) Fortunately a delicious array of goodies was available. Depite the need to wear a bikini later that day I plumped for the deep fried bananas with maple syrup. Yum (and genuinely, it is a bit late to be worrying about things like that after a three month food-a-thon).
As we are, quite literally, on the beach, we decided to head for a stroll along the front to get our bearings. We are in Kuta and we walked up towards Seminyak. I was mostly trying to spot the bar I want to go to this evening. It looks like the kind of place to sell pina coladas. And you know how I like pina coladas.
A couple of hours of strolling (so nice to have the time to do this) and it was a rush back to get ready for the activity of the day - surfing!
I have never been anywhere near a surf board before but I had visions of myself as a surf godesss. Clearly. I've got the sweaty betty bikini (per their PR - practical for watersports, yet effortlessly stylish). I spend hours and hours doing pilates (balance). What more do I need??
Quite a lot it appears. I could hear 'hahahahahaha, wipeout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' reverberating through my brain as I fell, and fell, and fell, into the water. I spent more time underwater than anywhere else and am quite frankly, exhausted. Having said that , I did actually enjoy myself and would certainly do it all again (ok, maybe not the bit where I hit myself on the chin with the surfboard while choking on salt water).
At one point the board and I managed to turn 360. Great as for once I ended up above water. (To be clear this was a roll into the water, not a great surfing move...)
Still, but the end of the lesson I had technically 'stood' on my board. Admittedly the board by this point was going v e r y s l o w l y... Still, I have now surfed. As a result I have weird shaped sunburn, red eyes and a need for beer. Immediately please.
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