Early morning run again for Andy, who is back in the groove after his China hiatus.

With the Airbnb providing an ideal location for sunbathing along with the odd dip in the plunge pool, we have started to got comfortable with our lazy lifestyle!

The girls have opted for the sun loungers, whilst Michelle and Andy are on the comfy outside chairs catching up with their summer reading.

The R&R days are briefly ‘interrupted’ with decisions over booking trips in Japan and S Korea, or getting ahead on visa applications. We now have both our New Zealand and Australian visas in readiness for visits to each later in the year.

Despite spending most of the last 9 months in the warmth of Australia and SE Asia, much of the last couple of months in Vietnam and China have been on tours, with little downtime for relaxing in the sun. This last week or so has been a welcome return and a great opportunity to bronze in Bali.

Early afternoon we went out in search of a good coffee and some brunch for the girls. St Ali cafe proved to be just the ticket with toasted banana bread and a croquet madam for Meg and Amelia, whilst Michelle became an honorary Aussie with her flat white.

Bali people love their dogs, unlike the Chinese (!), and it’s quite common to see our four legged friends meandering into restaurants on their own or just lounging in the shade. Amelia came across the latter who seemed totally at ease a sleep in the entrance to the cafe with not a care in the world. Reminded us all about how much we miss Coco and what a wonderful dog she is and the great company she offers.

On our way back to the Airbnb the girls came across an upscale vintage shop, and we soon lost them for about an hour as they went in search of some bargains.

Early evening we decided to check out an Italian restaurant that had a live jazz band playing all evening.

Fortunately we managed to snare a great table in the restaurant right next to the live band so we were in pole position to watch and listen to a bevy of classics from the likes of Sinatra & Elvis and many others.

When we ordered our food, the restaurant gave each of the girls a red rose, such a nice touch and one that you don’t see much of these days.

Our food when it arrived was classic Italian fayre, a good spicy sausage sourdough pizza along with some healthy and generous salad servings to share.

We soon got settled in and enjoyed a couple of hours chatting and listening to the great live music.

The girls had decided they were going to head off later clubbing, so when they departed at 10.30pm we settled into the latest episode of Slow Horses on Apple TV. How times of changed, if we could role back 30yrs we might have joined Amelia and Meg on their bar crawl together, although we may have still struggled with a finish around 4.30am, when they returned back at the Airbnb.

We were safely asleep at this point, although Michelle’s built in mother reactions meant she got up briefly, if only to make sure they were both safe and had had an enjoyable evening!