Dear Izzy,
Sounds like a sound idea to me. In fact, when we used to go on family holidays years ago it would always belt down with rain for a fortnight solidly, or my brother would get chicken pox, food poisoning or some other equally foul ailment.
Friends used to actually phone and check when we were planning to go away and to which destination, to ensure that they avoided those weeks and locations.
I am not joking here....
By the way, since Bali has had it's bomb, I really hope that there isn't any concern about Flamboyant as a target and I've always managed to stay one step ahead of chicken pox and bombs.
In fact, I should mention that I flew back to Bali on 6 October 2002 and 'hijacked' a few people on the flight to Bali to come up to Candi Dasa and stay at Flamboyant, including a young English chap. He was planning to stay in Poppies Lane in Kuta for a fortnight. I persuaded him to come up to Candi Dasa and stay at Flamboyant instead. Six days later, the guesthouse area that he was planning to stay in was blown sky high.
Understandably we've remained pretty good mates since then. Tim is still on his world wide backpack tour and still very much alive, thank God. He's sent quite a few guests to me at Flamboyant since then. It was a very happy coincidence that we met when we did and sat next to each other on the flight, because he would have died in the bomb blast otherwise. Doesn't bear thinking about Iz...
Jude
Sounds like a sound idea to me. In fact, when we used to go on family holidays years ago it would always belt down with rain for a fortnight solidly, or my brother would get chicken pox, food poisoning or some other equally foul ailment.
Friends used to actually phone and check when we were planning to go away and to which destination, to ensure that they avoided those weeks and locations.
I am not joking here....
By the way, since Bali has had it's bomb, I really hope that there isn't any concern about Flamboyant as a target and I've always managed to stay one step ahead of chicken pox and bombs.
In fact, I should mention that I flew back to Bali on 6 October 2002 and 'hijacked' a few people on the flight to Bali to come up to Candi Dasa and stay at Flamboyant, including a young English chap. He was planning to stay in Poppies Lane in Kuta for a fortnight. I persuaded him to come up to Candi Dasa and stay at Flamboyant instead. Six days later, the guesthouse area that he was planning to stay in was blown sky high.
Understandably we've remained pretty good mates since then. Tim is still on his world wide backpack tour and still very much alive, thank God. He's sent quite a few guests to me at Flamboyant since then. It was a very happy coincidence that we met when we did and sat next to each other on the flight, because he would have died in the bomb blast otherwise. Doesn't bear thinking about Iz...
Jude