2nd Day Bali
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 14 Sep 2016 22:57
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Our Second Day in
Bali
 There were to be no formal rally
events on Bali then we hear there will be a welcome dinner at eight o’clock.
That time changed from 16:30,17:00, 18:00, 19:30, 20:00 back to 19:30 until
there were scrambled message about 18:30/ Why oh why Raymond (rally
co-coordinator) cannot drop us a bullet point email each week we’ll never
know....... Going ashore at sunset.
 Following others
in.
 The
anchorage from ashore. Two rallies are in.
 Tonight the
dolphin was laser lit.
  The ‘welcome’
dinner was nothing more than a grab a table amongst
the other diners, choose from the buffet and move on. No speeches, no nothing to
suggest this was a rally event.
 The front was crammed with scooters and motorbikes.
 Temporary market
stalls as far as the eye could see.
 Years since we seen goldfish in bags at a fair.
 Bored and fed
up, the rest hope to go unnoticed.
 Disgruntled,
loads of us settled in a bar but it ran
out of Bintang beer. Determined to make an occasion out of being in Bali we
moved to the beach and enjoyed a really good
band.
  During the
performance one of the barmen entertained and
dished out doses of what was probably arak, local hooch from a bottle between
times balanced atop his head.
 Mask on and
centre stage.
 Back in the crowd, now flaming.
 Dancing with a
tourist.
 Along the beach a
gambling business, in many ways similar to roulette. So much money
changed hands, satchels, bags, piles and baskets of the stuff. You can bet on a
number, pair, group of four and when all bets placed a man rolls a heavy ball on
a dimpled surface with corresponding numbers, where it settles is the win. A few
rallyers put a few bob on and left as soon as they broke even. Locals had been
at it for hours. Time for bed said Zebedee.........
ALL IN ALL CROWDED CHAOS
BACK INTO THE WORLD OF
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