Day 2 fellow bloggers - in paradise.

Soooo I skipped breakfast and set off on foot again, yes I have a free bike to use, but on a bike I do not get to meet people and get the thousands of smiles, and hello shouts from everyone.

I walked passed a barbers shop and walked back and had a haircut, the first thing the barber did was ask if he could take a picture of me, so yes it was.

It was the best cut I ever had and it cost 15,000 RP or 96 pence/$1, so I gave him a tip on top, he took another picture and then a selfie with me, I get that a lot here, they must think I am someone famous lol 😀.

I carried on walking in search of some blutooth wireless headphones so I can have gps on the bike sometime soon, but now having second thoughts about riding the bike as the locals are so friendly that I would miss the smiles, chats, photos and that thing that makes life so much fun, human contact, it really is that friendly here compared to the UK and Poland, I feel like I am on a different planet.

It started raining.

The gent in the photo above stopped and said "hey my friend how are you doing today" and in my confusion I said great and shook his hand thinking it was the gent from yesterday. The rain was now getting torrential and I was getting soaked in shorts and a T shirt, he said jump on I give you a lift, I never asked where to lol. 😀

As the rain intensified he had on a baggy rain cover and said "put it over your head to stay dry.
I did and thought if my mother could see me now she would be saying "what the hell are you playing at" lol.
So there I was with a thing on my head, blind, going the wrong direction to where I reside (for now) until he stopped about 5 miles away.
I lifted the rain cover off my head to see 5 motorbike taxi riders to my left and a brick wall with a doorway but no door to my right and thought "here comes fight night" although one of the riders came over and handed me an umbrella.

The doorway led to a coffee plantation and was the best place I have been so far, taken by a stranger from the kindness of his heart.

There were coffee plants everywhere on multiple ground levels and the drinks you see above were 13 in total and free, if you bought 1 Bali coffee. So I bought a coffee for me and my new friend who spent an age looking at my bike collection on my phone, when I said I have more on my camera he said okay, looked at a few then said "enough - "there are so many I like, I cannot look anymore" we laughed and drank one of the best cups of coffee I have ever had.

On the way in I noticed some animals in cages, turns out they feed these the beans, when they are excreted out, they wash them, then roast them, 2 pics below.

In the first picture the pleasant and lovely lady is roasting beans, in the second she is making some instant and or smaller.

My day got better, whilst looking at my photos of bikes, I was asked how long I am staying, I said "up to me" to which drew a wow face. The random stranger then said he had a daughter in law that has a massive villa the other side of the island, would I like to stay there for a month or two for free? To which I replied (after he said 2 minute walk from the beach and 3 large rooms with a kitchen, and showed me pictures of the swimming pool plus luxurious huge gardens YES. But I do not want to stay for free, I want to pay something, maybe the same price I was offered on booking.com for my other place that I can cancel.

He offered also to drive me there for free, 3 hours drive, again I said I have to at least pay for the fuel.

So that is my next destination for a month or two from the 15th.

I found this place yesterday, it says cs gold and silver but also has a sign for a restaurant, so I headed there on foot after my new friend went home.

And had the best crispy duck in my life.

There were green beans so I ate one and it nearly blew my head off, the duck was sublime, the dippers deadly, but at $10 including a beer, who cares :-)......

I am so in love with Bali and the people I will find it hard to leave here, ever.
I have never felt so happy and at peace with myself as here, in 56 years, NEVER.

Although money does not grow on trees, so reality bites as one day mine will run out, till then though, I shall lap up every minute of this beautiful place, everywhere I go I keep smiling, and the locals love it, as much as I love them and their smiles, what a fantastic place to be, feels like heaven.

If you follow my posts and me, by now you realise there is something deeply wrong with my family relationship to be hear on my own, and there is, my wife does nothing but complain, I have drifted from my daughter since she started her periods, and my mother in law lives TOOOO fucking near, excuse my language, but yes, I need some me time, some of this nice people to see time, some friendly faces, not miserable A holes that want a fight just because I speak English in Poland.

If I can stay here, I am never going back, end of story!
I do not even care about my £100,000 of bikes anymore.

Now where do you get a divorce in Poland?.......

I will keep posting daily updates, hope you like them as much as I love being here. Have a fantastic day one and all.