Tick follows tock

We were both disappointed to leave our honeymoon hotel but once we arrived in Kuta and went down to the beach the waves washed our blues away. The surf and waves are spectacular - the kind you see on Guinness and Old Spice adverts, where surfers ride underneath the top of the waves as the foam swishes horizontally along above them. The current is so strong at times that we've seen people knocked over in ankle deep water. One minute your standing on sand and the next the water is above your waist.

We thought we'd try a bit of that and booked a morning's lessons with a "stand up by the end of the lesson or your next lesson free" surf school, fully expecting to have our next lesson free. However, as you can see we were both better than we imagined. As ever I managed to find the camera, a lady 80 metres away on the beach!

The sunsets here in Kuta bring hundreds to the beach to watch the sun go down as games of volleyball, football and frisby spring up from nowhere around 6 o'clock. We've had a few relaxing beers watching the sun go down. Perfect.