Bali Rain

If I were to sum up our trip to Bali, I’d have to say it was wet, rainy, humid, hot, sweltering and did I mention it rains a lot? I must admit that the rain made the country gorgeously green, but I think it also gives everyone webbed feet!! While it always rains this time of year, even the locals were noting that it was raining a bit more than usual. We had a very atypical run of 3 days worth of non-stop rain. Now I do indeed love reading books but even I found that it was getting to be a little bit much. We finally started to wander out whenever there was a bit of a lull just to move around. This worked well sometimes and sometimes got us totally drenched before we got home. The locals were ready for the rain, having lots of HUGE umbrellas – and even our bungalow had large ones for us to use.
Even though the rain was almost never ending, the thousands of shops were open for business at all times – with no end of “great deals” for us to explore. They wanted to sell us absolutely everything – carvings, pottery, weavings, you name it, they had it. Some things were wonderful, absolutely gorgeous, some were just very cheap. I must admit, it didn’t take long to get tired of roaming through the shops.