Meeting Up With Friends And Useless Taxi Drivers

Spent the day today relaxing by the pool, catching some sun and having a few dips in the water. And that was it really. A lazy day after the exertions of yesterday.

In the evening we took a trip over to Nusa Dura to visit a work friend who happened to be in Bali at the same time. Their hotel was massive and in a resort-type area that wasn’t very Bali-like. The food in the restaurant was lovely though, although a bit on the pricey side. Nothing like the few pounds we’d paid for our dinner the previous day. It was a lovely evening despite an argument with the taxi driver.

When we’d arranged the taxi at the hotel before leaving we had explained that we wanted him to hang around or come and pick us up when we were done and the fee was agreed based on this arrangement. But when he dropped us off in Nusa Dura he asked for his money and was going to leave us there.

When we told him we’d arranged for him to take us back he told us hewould pick us up at 9pm! Which is not what we had agreed. So after some heated ‘discussions’ and working out from the hotel how much a return journey would cost, we paid our driver a portion of his fee and sent him on his way! He wasn’t happy about this but it looked like he was trying to scam us for more money and we weren’t having any of it.