skippyy
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Reged: Jan 04 2009
Posts: 56
Loc: Pt Stephens NSW
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I can remember my first trip ( 1973) when all that existed was one intrsection at Kuta with about 6 stalls...no Legian, Jimbaran Bay, Seminyak etc. Sanur had ! big hotel (Hyatt) that we visited to use the lovely toilets and a few losmen. Our accom in Kuta was $1 a night job including banana brekky. The exchange rate was 415 rp to the US dollar! God I'm old.
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cadegirl
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Reged: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 129
Loc: North of Sydney
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...... what a trip that would have been.
My first trip was 1987. I was turning 18, very selfish had nothing but shopping and partying on my mind. Now im about to go back as a 40 yr old foster mum to 4 gorgeous girls and do mission work with orphans. Wow what a difference hey!!
I luved bali as soon as I got there, and still do.
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cosmo
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Reged: Aug 03 2003
Posts: 7666
Loc: Melbourne
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Don't worry Skippyy, there are plenty of olds on here, many of us first stayed in the late 70's.  
We don't feel old and we're still travelling, just in a bit more luxury now. 
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DB
Grand Master
Reged: Apr 07 2002
Posts: 8462
Loc: Br.Pengubengan
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God I'm old.
Yeah, those were the days!
Bali Anno Domini 1973
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baliourlife
Freak
Reged: Jan 19 2007
Posts: 575
Loc: Sunny Cronulla 48 weeks Bali 4
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1981 Kuta Beach Club had a absolute ball every night spent at Casablanca nearly no bikes only bemos, now where near the population we see today all market stalls except for the OM Bali clothing co. open drains dirt roads and first taste of frogs legs at Purah Bali Indah still frequent this restaurant today have some great old pictures on webshots balimack only wish we had the technology back then to have keps in touch with the wonderful people we met back then, also Lembongan Island day trip in dugout not one hotel on the island and we were the only tourists absolutely unspoilt
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GLASSY
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1976 for me. It was great. The only night club I can remember back then was Doggies. Never went there. Of a night time we would just chill out playing Backgammon, cards and guitars on the losman verandahs. And yes the Banana and thermos of tea breakfasts. Absolutley loved it back then, and still love it now, but I think back then was the best.
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Madness
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Reged: Jan 02 2007
Posts: 682
Loc: Melbourne
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1983 (we were there when we won the america's cup)
We stayed at Kuta Palace (now known as the Jayakarta). I went with my sister and brother, mum and dad paid for us to go. I was 17. I remember winning every drinking comp I went in. (we owned a pub).
I remember Norms "f'n good drinks". 7 white spirits with lemonade and raspberry.
I remember going to the very first 5 star hotel in Bali, in Nusa Dua.
I remember in the back of the Bemo's.
I remember buying heaps of music "cassettes"
I remember the pub crawl and loving Casablanca's bar...
Ahhh yes, those were the days.
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bistrobabe
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Reged: Oct 27 2007
Posts: 250
Loc: batemans bay
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1981 for me.........I loved it then, but I still love it now...but if I had to chose...definately back then. Funny story (well I think it is) my sister in law went to Bali for her honeymoon in 1985, staying at Nusa Dua. After a big night out...they were hungry and ordered a plate of hot chips...after waiting quite some time....the chips finally arrived.....a plate of potato chips (crisps....the ones from the packet, you know the ones like smith chips)....arranged nicely on a plate and heated up.!!! At least they tried.......and I'm pretty sure they still ate them....Its amazing what you can eat when you are young and have the munchies.
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alltorque
Black Belt
Reged: Oct 05 2002
Posts: 1033
Loc: perth w.a.
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Midnight Oil comes to mind...................................
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Bozobrain
Black Belt
Reged: Jan 01 2008
Posts: 1329
Loc: Darwin
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dem blo-dy mushrooms
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bintangbob
Grand Master
Reged: Jan 09 2005
Posts: 6228
Loc: Sydney
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I would impart my memories of then, but I can't remember them.  
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PaulPerth
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: Nov 06 2000
Posts: 10766
Loc: Ballajura WA
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A freakin hangover .
Pablo 
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DB
Grand Master
Reged: Apr 07 2002
Posts: 8462
Loc: Br.Pengubengan
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Pagi Don Pablo, Cap Cay was available in those days!  
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deezy
Crazy Poster
Reged: Apr 14 2004
Posts: 206
Loc: Perth Western australia
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1981..Bali Beach Hotel,
Swaztica's Resturant (*spelling) open air with blue metal on the floor.
Bemo's.
Gravel road to Kuta.
Not many stalls at the Kuta Art markets and just beach sand.
"The Pub" and the old guy who use to own it i think, who had a monkey outside in a cage and a motor bike he was proud of.
Getting Bali Belly and thinking i was going to die.
Many wonderful memories, going again for our 10th visit in 5 weeks time .. still love it more with each visit.
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balitime
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Reged: Jan 22 2009
Posts: 114
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1986 great time. Stayed at Ramayana Cottages. (called Ramayana Resort and Spa now) It was only about 2star then. The pub was very popular then and another bar across the road from there which I cant remember the name of now. (It's now closed down) I remember staggering back from the nightclubs/bars late at night and a whole heap of the stray street dogs would follow me home if I stopped and chatted to them.(sad I know) I think we only got around 2000 rupps to the dollar then. Happy days.
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cosmo
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2003
Posts: 7666
Loc: Melbourne
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I stayed in simple Losmen in 1979, with just a room, mandi and a fan. We were served a banana, coffee and a cinamon biscuit for breakfast.
Quite by accident a couple of years ago, I stumbled across the place and it looks exactly the same.
Aka Nini
Aka Nini 2
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Garry
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2002
Posts: 9477
Loc: Sidknee
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First two trips to Bali.
1979 & 1980
From a 1980 Garuda brochure:
• Visas were necessary and cost $3.20 and were valid for 30 days
• Vaccinations against cholera and smallpox were compulsory
• Typhoid and parayphoid vaccinations were recommended
• The Australian dollar fluctuated between 595 and 610 rp
• Airport departure tax was $1.10 AUD
• Tipping was not compulsory but appreciated and ranged from 8c - 12c for each bag carried by a porter or bellboy
• Quote:
'Summer clothes, open neck short sleeved shirts, slacks are recommended. Formal wear is usually a dark lounge suit.'
• Quote:
'Indonesia is a highly photogenic country. Those interested in photography should bring their own supply of film.'
'Changes in food sometimes results in minor stomach upsets.'
• Garuda operated three DC8 flights weekly from Sydney to Bali.
• Quote:
'(Taxis for sightseeing) On Bali, it costs about 80c AUD per hour for a minimum of two hours; if taken from the airport it costs about $1.10 AUD per hour for a minimum of four hours.'
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PaulPerth
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: Nov 06 2000
Posts: 10766
Loc: Ballajura WA
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Pagi Don Pablo, Cap Cay was available in those days!
Pagi Bli . That it was .
Pablo
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Muske
Black Belt
Reged: Jan 04 2004
Posts: 1056
Loc: burb of syd.
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1984 .... it was on the way to a European trip i was having.. (i went for a stopover on the way home also)
However i remember the smell that come out of my older brothers suitcases when they visited bali back in the 70's and the stories and beads they would bring back to me as a young teen. I always knew i too would go.
Dirt tracks down to the beaches. Stayed in losmens near poppies, with a fan and a lot of gheckos. bannana jaffles and fruit juices, mushrooms were on every tshirt and sarong. It truly was magic............!!!
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Garry
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2002
Posts: 9477
Loc: Sidknee
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on the way to a European trip i was having.. (i went for a stopover on the way home also)
My idea of THE perfect holiday Mara.
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bintangbob
Grand Master
Reged: Jan 09 2005
Posts: 6228
Loc: Sydney
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on the way to a European trip i was having.. (i went for a stopover on the way home also)
We did the stopover on the way home from Europe in '82.
One way ticket over with Singapore Airlines and home with Garuuudda Indoneeesia. $510.00 from London.
450 IDR to AUS$ first visit '78.
Everything seemed to cost a $ then though.
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gazjen
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Reged: Feb 09 2006
Posts: 266
Loc: Perth Australia
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Peanuts pub crawls, drinking comps at Cassablanca's, Early morning walk on the beach home to hotel after big night out. Yarnies, Jaffles they were the days.
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cosmo
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Reged: Aug 03 2003
Posts: 7666
Loc: Melbourne
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I didn't know bars or pubs existed ha ha, I must have had blinkers on. We used to buy daiquiris for $1.00 and I remember sitting at the old Mades in Kuta, with the wooden shutters and long wooden tables.
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balitime
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Reged: Jan 22 2009
Posts: 114
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Peanuts pub crawls, drinking comps at Cassablanca's, Early morning walk on the beach home to hotel after big night out. Yarnies, Jaffles they were the days.
The Casablanca, that was the bar that was across the road from the Pub. I remember a Bar Restaurant that was off Jalan Legian called Yannies that was run by an Australian guy and his Balinese wife. He was one of the first ones to organise water rafting trips from his bar. Does anyone know what happened to him? I went back one year and he had closed down. Someone said it was because his landlord put his rent up too high.
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bistrobabe
Insane Poster
Reged: Oct 27 2007
Posts: 250
Loc: batemans bay
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Those stairs at Casablanca were a nightmare but I think the toilets at Maxi's were worse....I could never quite get the hang of having to squat after a few drinks  On a serious note though...I loved Nusa Lembongan....white, white sandy beaches....it felt like you were marooned on a island....far, far away
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balitime
Crazy Poster
Reged: Jan 22 2009
Posts: 114
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Did anyone buy one of those blowpipes they were selling on the streets in the 80s? I bought one and customs took it off me and sprayed it when I got back. It looked a right mess when I picked it up off them.
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yappa41
Crazy Poster
Reged: Sep 14 2005
Posts: 157
Loc: Canningvale
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1984 for me-Kuta Palace back then with 5 other young guys from Country WA. Remember getting a massage in the grounds of Bali Mandira and back then was considered way out of town. Cassablancas and Peanuts each night and watching the sun rise without going to bed only to repeat the dose the next day.The meals were very dodgy back then and fish and chips was a whole fish and a roasted spud.
Loved every bit of it.
cheers
Yappa
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veejay
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Reged: Mar 27 2003
Posts: 1029
Loc: Nth of 'the coathanger", sth o...
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1977, part of a trip organized by uni. First time away from home . Java through to Bali and return to Jakarta. Didn't want to leave Bali . The rest of the trip was also fantastic but fell in love with Bali
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cosmo
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2003
Posts: 7666
Loc: Melbourne
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Love the photos Veejay, I must get mine scanned.
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veejay
Black Belt
Reged: Mar 27 2003
Posts: 1029
Loc: Nth of 'the coathanger", sth o...
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Hmm, you will . I'll have to get around to scanning more too. Maybe I'll put them on facebook - I had one on there, more for shock factor, I can hardly remember that my arms were actually that skinny 
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ladyHawkau
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Reged: Jun 10 2007
Posts: 429
Loc: Perth, Western Australia
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Did anyone buy one of those blowpipes they were selling on the streets in the 80s? I bought one and customs took it off me and sprayed it when I got back. It looked a right mess when I picked it up off them.
Yeah we brought the blow pipe and bow and arrow and no one even questioned us when we got back to Perth but once I found out how deadly they really where I got rid of them.
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hatch5
Master
Reged: Aug 09 2002
Posts: 4381
Loc: Under Heaven...
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http://travel.webshots.com/album/111605426VCEOyt
1983 for me
Qantas flight 20.......
Full of hot chicks and surfers. We always flew over Ulus and the surf would be pumping and the entire plane would cheer.
Drinking all out duty free before landing
Legian Village Hotel..and the Black pool
Maxis, Chez Gado Gado, Koala Blue, Sand Bar with the sand dance floor, another bar that had the pool in the middle???
Having to carry the damn passport around to exchange the travelers cheques
Writing your order down on a little piece of paper for them, and never getting what you ordered.
Lodgi Garden supermarket on Legian Road..The Umbrellas..all would meet here and have pre dance drinks...
Ulus...45 min walk from the road through sharp thorn bushes.Hearing the chant of the young Balos "I carry your board"
You would be on the bike and they would run and still beat you to the beach. The board would be waxed up and ready to go
The Arak bar...somewhere down Poppies with Mick Jagger
Pizzaz, the only fashion shop in Melasti st.....all the colours running in your clothes
Jack Pak Jackets
Brazillian soccer teaMS.....OH I could go on
Widya at Bemo corner...the best Travellers salads and banana, coconut and peanut butter smoothies...
no milk only cans of condensed milk
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hatch5
Master
Reged: Aug 09 2002
Posts: 4381
Loc: Under Heaven...
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Found these in my favs
http://www.baliforum.com/travel/favlinke...amp;postmarker=
http://www.baliforum.com/travel/favlinke...amp;postmarker=
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bistrobabe
Insane Poster
Reged: Oct 27 2007
Posts: 250
Loc: batemans bay
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So thats what they're called Jak Pack Jackets. I was looking at some old photos of me and Garry at the markets looking at these jackets....were they the ones you could wear, and then when you take it off, it becomes a bag....handy invention, but one that I just couldn't bring myself to wear.....but then when I have a look at some of the things that I was wearing....I sort of thought to myself....girl what were you on when you bought that.....must of been the after effects of one of those Arak Attack nights.
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GLASSY
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Yes The Travelles Salad at Widya, I remember them Trace, they were the best. I wanted to take a friend there one trip and we walked up and down, up and down looking for it and guess what I had gone , I was so disappointed cause I was hangin for that salad.
What about KayuApi, had some big nights there, and the Arak Bar.
Happy's restaurant I would write down I wanted Baked Beans as it was on the menu, and you guessed it never any Baked Beans and I would do it everyday, knowing full well there were no Baked Beans, just had to do it to get a laugh.
The bike pit at Maxi's, try and find your bike at the end of the night haha, so that you could ride to L Parata for a pizza at some ridiculous hour of the morning and then walk back to Logi Gardens when all the ladies were heading off to the markets.
God I loved it back then
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bintangbob
Grand Master
Reged: Jan 09 2005
Posts: 6228
Loc: Sydney
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Rum Jungle restaurant late '70's. Anyone go there?
Loved Happys, Glory and also Fatties on Jl Legian in a rice field. Best crab and corn soup to this day.
The Pub in its old location at Bemo Cnr. About the only airconditioning available to us. Staying Jonies losmens, yeehaa.
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Levi
Expert
Reged: Feb 12 2004
Posts: 2024
Loc: in a small hole
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Holidaying with my parents and good to see Yanies get a mention, all those birds flying around in there and the owner's thunderous Harley
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cooltongite
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Reged: May 15 2008
Posts: 111
Loc: Cooltong, via Renmark, Riverla...
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I was always fascinated by my younger sister Robbi's trips to Bali in the 70's. She used to tell how she stayed in a hut on/near the beach at Kuta/Legian - very cheap in those days - cost her $1aud/day which included her rent and food! Then some nights she would head off to a disco(don't know any names sorry), and dance by herself - various guys would come up and have a dance with her - until she flitted off elsewhere, LOL! Must get her to send me an essay re her 70's Bali trips and put it up here eh? Cheers Cheryl
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Bort
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Reged: Oct 04 2005
Posts: 419
Loc: Melbourne, Oz
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The memories I have of my first trip to Bali consist of things like: that smell, gamelon music, geckos, timeshare hawkers ... Ah, memories ... 2001: A Bali Odyssey.
Oh, hang on, everyone else is talking about decades old memories! Those I also have but they are all second-hand. My mother first visited Bali in 1975 or 76. She went for a month with friends who were already Bali-regulars. One of her first letters asked us to give her a list of music we'd like her to buy, as cassettes were cheap. My sisters and I shot off an aerogram full of Want Lists.
When they came back the friends were telling me that next time my mother goes to Bali I should also go. Her next trip was 2 or 3 years later, but I didn't go. If that trip was in 1978 I didn't go as I was doing VCE (or whatever it was called back then.) If the trip was in 1979 it was because at the end of the year I was going to North America for four months.
In the early 80s my youngest sister travelled to Bali, and my other sister and my father a couple of years later. By the time I first travelled to Bali my mother would have been then 15-20 times, my father about 10-15, and my sisters two or three times each. I do enjoy hearing their (and your) stories of what Bali was like back then, looking at the old photos, etc.
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DB
Grand Master
Reged: Apr 07 2002
Posts: 8462
Loc: Br.Pengubengan
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Oh, hang on, everyone else is talking about decades old memories!
My great great great great great great grandfather went to Bali in 1720 as VOC member and never went back.
My family stayed in Batavia till they got kicked out in 1948 by Ahmed Soekarno
I came to live Bali in 2006 and will never go back
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islandhome
Cool Newbie
Reged: Sep 08 2007
Posts: 47
Loc: Perth WA
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Funny I was looking at some pics the other night 1979 was my first visit "bali sunset club" 21 days for $150.00 including breaky........... doggies and rum jungle I rememeber and of course mid night oil. Used to take loo roll with you everywhere just in case>>>>>>>
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alltorque
Black Belt
Reged: Oct 05 2002
Posts: 1033
Loc: perth w.a.
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Bali Sunset club.....brings it back...79 was 2nd visit
think I might know you..................
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islandhome
Cool Newbie
Reged: Sep 08 2007
Posts: 47
Loc: Perth WA
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well that would be funny...........
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baliourlife
Freak
Reged: Jan 19 2007
Posts: 575
Loc: Sunny Cronulla 48 weeks Bali 4
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http://travel.webshots.com/album/111605426VCEOyt
loved your photos, the one with the young earing seller was that Nusa Dua? we went Lembongan in 81 absolutely beautiful mind you the trip hope in that boat during the afternnoon storm was to say the least one of the most frightening experiences I have ever had thanks again luved them
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wolfy
Grand Master
Reged: Nov 28 2002
Posts: 6983
Loc: albion park nsw
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Full of hot chicks and surfers
so you were a surfer back then trace??????  
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Bozobrain
Black Belt
Reged: Jan 01 2008
Posts: 1329
Loc: Darwin
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trace do you want to borrow my walking frame?????
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hatch5
Master
Reged: Aug 09 2002
Posts: 4381
Loc: Under Heaven...
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No that picture of the earing seller was Legian.
I too had a terrible experience on the way back from Lembongan in a small fishing boat, its in the pictures.
Huge waves breaking over the top of us while we were being followed by huge fins..the fisherman said Tuna!!!!
Wolfy I was a hot surfer chick
Mark, if I borrowed your frame you would fall over
Trust the 2 of you to make those comments!!!!!! lol
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RayGlen
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Reged: Jan 02 2008
Posts: 119
Loc: Geelong
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Hi Baliour life
My earliest memories and continuing
I was there in the late seventies early eighties and had a friend called Ketut alias Toothpick in all the trips i had he always looked after us. I decided to find him after the bomb so i chased around the bars in Kuta had a bintang in each (as u do) whilst trying to locate my old friend finally found him in Singaraja.I was so pleased that he hadn,t been hurt or died in the bombing. We hired a car and off i went to Singaraja, pulled up out the front of his little shop and i could hear his wife yelling Mr Ray is here, It was great to catch up with the family only my old mate wasn,t there he was working, his wife called him 10 minutes later the bike came roaring down the road he jumped off before it had stopped, he couldn,t believe i had made the effort to contact him it was a very moving moment.
I was on my third wife by this time so he had a million questions to ask me as to how my previous wives were as he had meet them on all my trips.Within an hour all his family had arrived as i had meet many of them during my trips, My old friend had left Bali before the 1st bombing and headed back to his village, to live once again in the family home, he got himself a job with a builder and worked his way to his current position as foreman, building properties for the Japanese. He showed me all around Singaraja introducing me to all the village locals that we came across, We can not put into words exactly the way we felt, and it was very sad to say goodbye on the day. Since then we have kept in touch and as two old friends now in our fifty,s our thirty odd years of friendship will always be.
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cosmo
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2003
Posts: 7666
Loc: Melbourne
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That's great Ray.
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Levi
Expert
Reged: Feb 12 2004
Posts: 2024
Loc: in a small hole
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RayGlen, that's the sort of stuff i love to read about all the best for you and of course toothpick !!
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PaulPerth
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: Nov 06 2000
Posts: 10766
Loc: Ballajura WA
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Top story mate, always good to hear about these enduring friendships.
Pablo
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Garry
Grand Master
Reged: Aug 03 2002
Posts: 9477
Loc: Sidknee
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...... we have kept in touch and as two old friends now in our fifty,s our thirty odd years of friendship will always be.
Know exactly what you mean Ray. Thanks for the story.
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