wifey2003
Bali & Malta are crossed off my " to re - visit " list...Bali was so shabby unless you stayed in the 4/5 star hotels....could not fault hospitality , just a very dirty place...Malta , well , it was like gods waiting room....
When visiting Bali some years ago, we’d been warned by a dd to avoid certain beach areas - ‘It’s an Aussie Blackpool and you’ll hate it.’
We stayed in Ubud, travelled around quite a bit, and enjoyed it well enough, but I feel no desire to return. I failed to see the ‘magic’ that people so often talk of. Which is a pity, since a relative of dh has a villa there, where we could stay for free if we wanted. It’s nowhere near the sea, though, which is a big negative to me.
TBH I prefer other parts of Indonesia - dh was based in Jakarta for over a year, I joined him twice and we travelled around a lot - I have far more cherished memories of Sulawesi, Lake Toba, and the orang outan reserve at Bukit Lawang, among others.