ahoy! i believe i knew about the sand/planet thing for many years. and in related news: the saying “splice the mainbrace” is a noutical command meaning a tot of rum to all hands.

liv: read you mail and the tale. good stuff, i will get cracking when i have a lesure momant. probably in about 3 days time.

we are in kuta feeling very sunburnt after an ill advised noon beach session. oh well. the day before yesterday we went to a nifty clifftop temple near the bottom most part of bali. we pottered around for a bit accasionaly fending off monkeys who will steal any thing not nailed down. speaking off monkeys: when we were in ubud we went to the monkey forest there, strolled aroung maveling at the wierd humanlikeness off the monkeys. they were quite unafraid and will sit on you and demand food. one enterprising chap sat on my shoulders and searched my hair for ticks and lice, finding none he sttled on consuming my golden locks.he had to be prised of like a limpet!

our days are lesured when not traveling. we go to the beach, read and play cards. we bourt two fresh packs, nothing wrong with mamas but we needed more to play a strange version of Happy that annika knows. this game is interesting as it cannot end. asfar as i can tell it is impossible to finnish the game. we played it for four strait hours when i padanbai andgained no headway. good fun though.
we will probably go to lovina instead of that island place as annika wishes to see the mountains and stuff, and stay at bedegul.

of to see annother temple tonight, one in the middle of the sea!

julio