Photo taken by Dave Anderson
No one ever wants their holiday to end but Bali has a way of leaving a taste in your mouth that you just don't want to get rid of. Here are some sure signs that you wish you could have lingered for a week or two longer in the Island of the Gods.
- You try to negotiate the taxi fare home from the airport and are disappointed when the driver isn’t blasting 90’s dance music out of oversized speakers.
- It becomes very annoying that you can’t turn to just about anyone on the street and ask for a scooter/surfing lessons/driver/viagra and have it turn up within seconds.
- ‘Let’s meet at sunset’ is no longer a valid meeting time and you hesitantly resort back to using the clock.
- You wish people would rip you off because you miss playing the negotiation game.
- You consider any day that doesn't involve at least one swim as a day wasted.
- Secretly, you’re getting around the house in a sarong.
- The fact that you can’t afford a smoothie with breakfast makes you want to pull the pin on the Western World.
- You tell everyone where you are going all the time because you miss constantly being asked by smiley faced Balinese people, ‘where are you going?’
- You refuse to go anywhere that you can't wear flip flops.
- You think grabbing a quick whole coconut on the go to quench your thirst should be a lot more convenient.
- You wish that you could get Nasi with your KFC meal rather than chips.
- If you can’t remember someone’s name you run the gauntlet- Ketut or Wayan.
- You're still posting your Bali photos on social media with #takemeback.
- You get excited when you find a bottle shop that sells Bintangs. And you excitement subsides when you realise they cost more than $2.
- You try and salvage your last Bali manicure for as long as possible.
- You catch a whiff of a coconut and you instantly think of that sunscreen smell and sunbaking in Bali.
- You look for the rice paddy short cut when you're stuck in traffic.